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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
internee
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He departed with authorisation to release all young internees who were willing to join the Pioneer Corps.
▪ It was a bleak existence, but what struck Joe was how easily he and his fellow internees became accustomed to it.
▪ Joe and his fellow internees were jubilant.
▪ Like other internees, they lived in hastily built barracks with little privacy or basic comforts.
▪ One of their demands was for a phased release of internees.
▪ They were officially internees, rather than prisoners, and life, although monotonous and full of deprivation, was not brutal.
Wiktionary
internee

n. one who is imprisoned or otherwise confined

WordNet
internee

n. a person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists"

Usage examples of "internee".

These were Jewish Kapos, who got better food than 32 THE ODESSA FILE the other internees for doing the job they did.

After I became a Rapo all social contact between me and the other internees ceased.

Before raising a squeal because two thousand internees have only eighteen latrine buckets between them, one might as well remember what has happened these last few years in Poland, in Spain, in Czechoslovakia, etc.

That much had been clear as soon as the last load of internees arrived atop the plateau, hearing the black winch box shut down with an electronic buzz and booby-trapped clank.

Now ten of the original band of internees, plus several well-watched prisoners, labored to prepare the captive prize for travel.