^^It’s already happened, @rojo. In October 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world’s population, it houses around 22 percent of the world’s prisoners.
Florida, Louisiana and Alabama have some of the worst prisons in the world. Prisoners are starved, boiled alive in super-heated showers, beaten to death, their cells are set on fire and they are burned alive—and nobody gives a shit.
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. Insult upon injury came when the were released. Many found that their businesses, homes and personal property had been legally stolen by members of the Anglo communities around them.
By comparison, the Japanese internment camps were cake. That is a really, really sad statement on our present prison system.