Tule Lake, the prison within a prisonThe Tule Lake camp sits in the northeastern corner of California in a flat and treeless basin that was drained for farmland in the 1920s. Muddy conditions at Tule Lake made motor transportation through the prison camp difficult. Altogether, 5,589 citizens — 98% of whom were incarcerated at Tule Lake — gave up their American citizenship. Tule Lake No-Nos were further isolated for their resistance, which was viewed as disloyalty. Those incarcerated at Tule Lake as children came out in force to protest the separations from the site of the Tule Lake jail, drawing parallels with their own experiences.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 20, 2021 09:11 UTC