former incarceration camp
C8348
concept
A former incarceration camp is a site previously used to detain individuals under restrictive or punitive conditions, which has since been closed, repurposed, or preserved as a historical or memorial location.
Aliases (6)
- Allied military prison ×1
- former penal colony ×1
- former political prison ×1
- internment camp ×1
- site of political imprisonment ×1
- transit camp ×1
Instances (7)
- War Criminals Prison No. 1 ("Allied military prison")
- Theresienstadt concentration camp ("transit camp")
- Manzanar National Historic Site
- Shlisselburg ("former political prison")
- Devil’s Island ("former penal colony")
- Long Kesh ("internment camp")