internment camps

Internment camps are facilities where people are confined without trial, typically during wartime or political crisis.

Governments have used them to detain those considered threats based on ethnicity, nationality, or political affiliation rather than individual guilt: Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II.

The term is sometimes used euphemistically to soften harsher realities—what one government calls an internment camp another might call a concentration camp.