Why Is It Important To Work In Prisons?

The internees were transported to the camps in long buses with fenced up windows. All of these camps would be overcrowded and the living conditions at the camps were very poor. All prisoners were housed in small tarpaper barracks, which are buildings used to house soldiers, and sometimes entire families would be housed in one barrack. All of these barracks had a poor building structure and were built without plumbing or cooking facilities. Most of these camps were located in remote areas where the weather was not always enjoyable or favorable for the prisoners. They had to all use communal areas for washing, laundry and eating. One victim, Mine Okubo, had said “The camps represented a prison: no freedom, no privacy, no ‘America’”. All prisoners were served food in big mess halls, which were are all numbered, where the sound of a ringing bell would notify the internees it was time
Employment at the camps was not mandatory but most of the adults chose to work because it was an easy way to pass time and way to make money. There was almost a job for everyone in the camp. Most of the internees worked full-time and usually put in about forty hours of work a week. In the beginning, the prisoners were not paid for their work but over time their wage would increase little by little. Their payment depended on the type of work they did and how well they did it. Professional and technical work would get paid a good sixteen dollars per month, skilled workers would get paid about twelve dollars a month and unskilled workers would only get paid eight dollars a month. All internees who worked were given a clothing credit of $3.75 a month. Each camp had its own hospital, police department, and fire department. There were lots of job openings and a mess hall worker because there tons of prisoners to serve. While adults had to go to work, like every other average human, children had to go to school as