Comment by yummyfajitas
16 years ago
They were prison camps due simply to the fact that you were not permitted to leave (without permission). It might have been a gilded cage, but it was still a cage.
16 years ago
They were prison camps due simply to the fact that you were not permitted to leave (without permission). It might have been a gilded cage, but it was still a cage.
I think you're really stretching the definition of prison, e.g. it was also a cage that 25% were given permission to leave.
Why not use internment instead?
Internment is a special case of imprisonment - all internment is imprisonment, but only some imprisonment is internment (when it's done to large groups without a trial).
Yes, but prison, the word we've been discussing up to now, has different and much more loaded connotations than imprisonment.