Living+Conditions

When the internees reached the internment camps, the conditions were horrible. The location of most of the interment camps were in desert areas; which was in far away from cities. In these places it got down to below freezing in the winter and around a hundred in the summer. These "camps" were sometimes military based, and on racetracks;that often had dust storms. It was 376 dollars per inmate. People stayed there for 3 1/2 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-American_Internment
 * __Location__**

These "houses" were long and narrow, crowed up together, and most of the time were 16ft. by 20ft. These "houses" were tar paper covered barracks. It was built by civillian contractors. This was the cheapest way to provide living conditions slightly better than a tent. The walls were extremly thin to the point of freezing to death. The internees had no heat, the only thing that kept them warm was an oil-burning stove. The grass grew through the cracks in the floor.These poor people had no running water what so ever; they had to use unpartioned toilets. At the beginning they had no cooking staff, because they were unprepared. Families had to wait in line together to get thier food. They served horrible food, such as canned apricots over rice; the cooks there thought that the Japanese-Americans would enjoy the food. People in these camps had a budget of 45-48 cent a day. They had to eat with tin cups, plates, spoons, and forks. Even though the food was terrible, it somewhat improved over the three and a half year time spand. At one point the Japanese Americans had to be the cooking staff. Like wise these people had poor living conditions to face. Now these homes had no space it was over crowed, there were too many people in one space of housing. These people were treated with no respect in and outside of the camps. The guards would call them Japs, to insult them. Actually, they had search lights come on at night to try to find any escaping people. These people were were fenced in 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Families had to cuddle up together to keep warm because of the poor heating conditions. The internees ran the camps themsevles in order to make those horrid conditions livable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-American_Internment After a time the camp it's self started to improve. People started to to build schools using the empty barracks. The people also built hospitals, and better mess halls. Even people started to work their. Some of the people put up an effort to try improve their houses by making their house's physical appaerance look better. Some people even took it to the next level and grow gardens. After being in there the American government had the Japansese-Americans to sign loyalty oaths, which enabled them to leave the camp and go into the army. After dealing with positives and negatives of being in the camps for three and a half years they were allowed to leave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-American_Internment __**Citaions**__ 1. Amor, John. "Manzanar Ringo-En." __Owens Valley History__. 23 Aug 2007. 18 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/manzanar/page12.html>.] \ 2. Blevin, Larry. "The Cruel Injustice of Japanese Internment." __Japanese Internment__. 18 Dec 2007 <[|http://academic.evergreen.edu/b/blelar29/>.] 3. "Japanese American Internment." __Wikipedia__. 2007. 18 Dec 2007 <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/japanese_american_internment>.] 4. Siasoco, Ricco. "Japanese Relocation Centers." __Infoplease__. 11 Jan 2007. Personal Education. 18 Dec 2007 <[|http://infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html>.] 5. Welch, Catherine. __Children of the Relocation Camps__. 1. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2000.
 * __Housing Conditions__**
 * __How They Had to Eat__**
 * __How the Japanese-Americans were treated in the camps.__**
 * __The Camp Condition Improves__**