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The Catalina Federal Honor Camp, or Tucson Federal Prison Camp, located in the Santa Catalina Mountains, held men subject to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. It had no security fence, boundaries were marked with stones painted white. 45 of the 46 prisoners were draft resisters and objectors of conscience transferred from camps in Colorado, Arizona and Utah, although Gordon Hirabayashi, who had challenged the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, was also held here. The camp was established in the Coronado National Forest in 1939, under the authority of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, with plans to use inmate labor to build a highway connecting Tucson, Arizona to the mountains. Expanded in the 1940s, the Honor Camp consisted of four prisoner barracks, a mess hall, laundry facilities, power and storage facilities, a garage, a vocational shop, one classroom, an administration building, fifteen cottages for prison staff, and water and sewage systems; a baseball field and farmland were also part of the Honor Camp facilities.
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World Prisons. (2026). Catalina Federal Honor Camp. Retrieved July 22, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/catalina-federal-honor-camp
"Catalina Federal Honor Camp." World Prisons. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/catalina-federal-honor-camp.
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Catalina Federal Honor Camp},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/catalina-federal-honor-camp},
urldate = {2026-07-22}
}