United States · California
Camp Tulelake
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Civilian Conservation Corps camp in California, renamed Tule Lake Isolation Center during WWII and used as an incarceration center
Background
Camp Tulelake was a federal work facility and War Relocation Authority isolation center located in Siskiyou County, five miles (8 km) west of Tulelake, California. It was established by the United States government in 1935 during the Great Depression for vocational training and work relief for young men, in a program known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. The camp was established initially for CCC enrollees to work on the Klamath Reclamation Project. During World War II, in 1942 the Tule Lake War Relocation Center was built nearby as one of ten concentration camps in the interior of the US for the incarceration of Japanese Americans who had been forcibly relocated from the West Coast, which was defined as an Exclusion Zone by the US military. Two-thirds of the 120,000 incarcerated individuals were United States citizens.
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1935
Operational
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Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1935
Region
California
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
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Mailing
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Data completeness
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Sources
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- Wikidata (Q7852012)
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World Prisons. (2026). Camp Tulelake. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/camp-tulelake
"Camp Tulelake." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/camp-tulelake.
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