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 18 (continued)
Federal Bureau of Prisons

Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, Kansas

The Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, 15 miles northwest of Kansas City, Kansas, is located on 1,583 square acres with 22.8 acres inside the penitentiary walls (Figure 18.17). Construction of the prison began in 1897, using labor from the nearby U.S. Army Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. Inmates of the Army Disciplinary Barracks, in fact, were also the first to be incarcerated at the prison, in 1903. The first cell house opened in 1906, and the prison was completed in the mid-1920s.

Older draft resisters from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center were incarcerated at Leavenworth, as well as the seven leaders of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee who were convicted of counseling others to resist the draft. The 28 solders from Fort McClellan who protested the internment and other discrimination were also sent to Leavenworth, but civilian and military prisoners were kept separate. Today Leavenworth is the largest maximum security prison in the United States, housing about 2,000 inmates.

Figure 18.17. Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary today.

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