Justice delayed
Subtitle: the record of the Japanese American internment cases
By: edited and with an introduction by Peter Irons.
Contributors: Irons, Peter H.,  1940-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Middleton, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Japanese Americans  -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans  -- Civil rights.; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.; Writ of error coram nobis  -- United States.
Description: More than 120,000 people, most of them native-born American citizens, were forced by military order into concentration camps -- the government called them "relocation centers"--After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Inmates of these camps, hidden in deserts and swamps from California to Arkansas, spent an average of three years behind barbed wire fences. Not one of the Japanese Americans sentenced to years of barren exile had been charged with any crime, given the right of legal counsel, or offered even the rudiments of due process under the Constitution. - p. ix.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 411-414.