Cover Page

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Essay

Brief History

Gila River

Granada

Heart Mountain

Jerome

Manzanar

Minidoka

Poston

Rohwer

Topaz

Tule Lake

Isolation Centers

Add'l Facilities

Assembly Centers

DoJ and US Army Facilities

Prisons

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord

Chapter 12 (continued)
Topaz Relocation Center

Security Features

Recently constructed ramps in the northeast portion of the central area has caused extensive disturbance to the military police compound. Very little remains there besides three small concrete slabs, one recently modified by a crude rock and concrete wall (Figure 12.24).

Figure 12.24. Rock and concrete wall at the military police compound.

Figure 12.25. Watch tower foundation and intact portion of the western perimeter fence.

On the west, south, and east sides of the relocation center, portions of the perimeter security fence still remain. Foundations of three of the seven watch towers are still in place (Figure 12.25). At the location of two of the other watch towers, the foundations, though pulled out of place, are nearby. Eight other likely watch tower foundation remnants (large formed-in-place concrete blocks) have been used to make a low wall at the driveway entrance to Mr. Williams's home in Block 28.

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