Editing Leupp, Arizona (section)

===Leupp Isolation Center===
During [[World War II]], the US Army took over the abandoned [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]] boarding school in Leupp to use as the Leupp Isolation Center, for [[Japanese American]] [[Japanese American internment|internees]] considered "troublemakers" by authorities at other internment camps.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anthropology74/ce14b.htm Leupp Isolation Center, Arizona], [[National Park Service]]</ref> The first inmates were transferred from [[Manzanar]] Isolation Center, which had preceded the use of Leupp for this purpose. In [[Manzanar#Resistance|December 1942 a clash]] had taken place between camp guards and several hundred Japanese-American internees. Two prisoners were killed, and nine prisoners and one guard were injured.

The 16 men suspected as having instigated the protests were removed from camp and placed in surrounding town jails. While they were held in jail (without being charged with a crime or allowed a hearing), [[War Relocation Authority]] officials converted a former [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] camp outside [[Moab, Utah]], into a temporary isolation center for "noncompliant" Japanese Americans. The 16 men from Manzanar arrived in Moab on January 11, 1943. Over the next three months, another 25 "troublemakers"—mostly men who had resisted the WRA's attempts to [[Internment of Japanese Americans#Loyalty questions and segregation|assess the loyalty]] of incarcerated Japanese Americans by asking them to take a poorly worded oath—were brought to Moab. On April 27 most of the population was transferred to Leupp. (Five men, serving sentences in the nearby county jail after protesting conditions in the isolation center, were transported to Leupp in a five-by-six-foot box on the back of a truck. Their separate transportation was arranged by Moab director Francis Frederick, who had also sentenced them for "unlawful assembly.")<ref name=Hansen>Hansen, Arthur A. [http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Moab/Leupp%20Isolation%20Centers%20%28detention%20facility%29/ "Moab/Leupp Isolation Centers"] ''Densho Encyclopedia'' (accessed June 17, 2014).</ref>

Additional internees were sent here from [[Tule Lake Unit, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument|Tule Lake]], [[Topaz War Relocation Center|Topaz]] and other camps. Leupp housed a population of approximately 50–60 prisoners at a time, with a total of 80 Japanese Americans passing through the isolation center while it operated. The 52 inmates then residing in Leupp were transferred to the stockade at Tule Lake (converted to a segregation center for "disloyal" Japanese Americans earlier that year) on December 2, 1943. The camp technically remained open, retained with minimal maintenance, until September 20, 1944. On that date it was returned to Department of the Interior authority.<ref name=Hansen/>