United States · Prowers County
Granada War Relocation Center
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Photo by CraigPattersonPhotographer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Photo by CraigPattersonPhotographer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo by Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Background
Granada War Relocation Center, known to the internees as Camp Amache ( ah-mah-chee) and later designated the Amache National Historic Site, was a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Prowers County, Colorado. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Americans on the West Coast were rounded up and sent to remote camps. The camp, located 1.3 miles (2.1 km) southwest of the small farming community of Granada, south of U.S. Highway 50, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 1994, and designated a National Historic Landmark on February 10, 2006. On March 18, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Amache National Historic Site Act authorizing the Granada War Relocation Center to become part of the National Park System. It was formally established as part of the National Park Service on February 15, 2024, the third National Historic Site in Colorado after Bent's Old Fort and the site of the Sand Creek Massacre.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
2022
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2022
Region
Prowers County
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Takashi Terami?–1963 · university teacher
- Chris K. Ishii1919–2001 · painter
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
20%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5594121)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Granada War Relocation Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/granada-war-relocation-center
"Granada War Relocation Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/granada-war-relocation-center.
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