Conditions in Japanese American Internment Camps (WWII)

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from West Coast homes and incarcerated in remote "relocation centers" (deserts, swamps). Conditions were harsh:

• Cramped barracks, no beds—thin mattresses on floors.
• Inadequate, poorly prepared food.
• Few medical facilities; deaths from TB, dysentery.
• Constant surveillance, racist propaganda, discrimination.
• Mental health toll: isolation, despair, suicides.

In 1988, the U.S. apologized and paid reparations to survivors.