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High-Security Camps
Arts and crafts were useful for filling idle time in prison and relocation camps. Even those who objected to their treatment and were sent to higher security camps or even federal prisons, found time to tinker.
Chiura Obata's painting depicts James Wakasa being shot to death while walking near the fence in the Topaz camp in Utah; Wakasa was hard of hearing, and did not hear orders to stop shouted from the guard tower. |