What is "internment camp"

Usage examples of "internment camp".

We have two Indians - lascars - two Goanese, two Singhalese, two Poles, a Puerto Rican, a Southern Irishman and, for some odd reason, an Italian who, as an official enemy, ought to be a prisoner-of-war or in an internment camp somewhere.

Mineta obstinately refused to consider a relevant airport screening procedure on the grounds that fifty years earlier another Democrat had put him in an internment camp.

An internment camp teaches you things about the value of not knowing.

He had been captured in March 1943 during the battle of EI-Agheila, was shipped to Britain, and was presently held in an internment camp just outside Bridgend.

He has been too frequent a visitor at our cautious Lord Holder's internment camp.

He had been on the Olympic team back in 1936 and had spent most of the war in an internment camp.

This is disgusting hypocrisy, in the first place because of your own record during the past ten years, in the second place because troops who have taken prisoners have to secure them somehow until they can get them to a place of safety, and to tie men's hands in such circumstances is totally different from chaining up a helpless prisoner who is already in an internment camp.

In congressional testimony last week, Mineta mercifully spared the senators a recap of his experience in a Japanese internment camp and allowed his assistant, longtime Bush crony and ATF apologist John Magaw, to explain the department's key security improvements.

There they were successful in rescuing a prisoner who escaped from an enemy internment camp constructed on the surface.

Thus he missed the fall of Bukavu when finally the ammunition ran out in November, and the five months in an internment camp in Kigali.