mass detention
Large-scale holding
Mass detention is the confinement of large numbers of people by a government or authority, typically without individual trial or due process.
The practice often targets entire groups based on ethnicity, political affiliation, or immigration status: the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II, mass detention of migrants at the border.
The term carries critical overtones, implying systematic overreach rather than legitimate law enforcement.
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
- prison campsGuarded sites holding captives
- campsTemporary outdoor lodgings
- border campsFacilities detaining those crossing boundaries
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
incarceration · gulag · forced labor · barbed wire · concentration · ethnic cleansing · roundup · cells · holding cells · captivity · overcrowding · deportation · political prisoners · cages · confinement · persecution · oppression · surveillance
- detentionjail, captive, prison, captivity, imprisonment
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
mass detentiondue process
Guaranteed judicial fairness
individual rights · civil liberties · habeas corpus · rule of law · judicial review
mass detentiongeneral amnesty
Sweeping official forgiveness
blanket amnesty · freedom of movement · civil liberty · free society
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