USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -There were a total of 10 prison camps, called “Relocation Centers.” Typically the camps included some form of barracks with communal eating areas. Several families were housed together. Residents who were labeled as dissidents were forced to a special prison camp in Tule Lake, California.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first internment camp in operation was Manzanar, located in California. Between 1942 and 1945 a total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120, 000 Japanese Americans for varying periods of time in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Life at Manzanar Manzanar, located in the Owens Valley of California between the Sierra Nevada on the west and the Inyo mountains on the east, was typical in many ways of the 10 camps. About two-thirds of all Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar were American citizens by birth.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Relocation centers” were situated many miles inland, often in remote and desolate locales. Sites included Tule Lake, California; Minidoka, Idaho; Manzanar, California; Topaz, Utah; Jerome, Arkansas; Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Poston, Arizona; Granada, Colorado; and Rohwer, Arkansas.

Detailed explanation-5: -The largest was the Tule Lake internment camp, located in northern California with a population of over 18, 000 inmates. The smallest was Amanche, located southeastern Colorado, with over 7, 000 inmates.