internment

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The demonstration was a protest against the policy of internment – imprisoning people without trial – which had been put in place following three years of violence.

From BBC

On the home front, Romer shows how Ruth barnstormed Central California in 1927, a decade and a half before the U.S. government forced citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps there.

From Los Angeles Times

We have a history of shadows: Japanese internment orders were once signed here, ICE raids now resume here.

From Los Angeles Times

"And the Everglades internment camp even more so," he said.

From BBC

They are building facilities across the country that can only be described as internment camps.

From Salon