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definition:	a special U.S. internment camp located near Moab, Utah, occupied in 1943 by Japanese-Americans who had been deemed to be "trouble-makers" during their previous internment at ordinary camps created for the holding of Japanese citizens during World War II. The conditions at the Moab Isolation Center were harsher than at other camps. At its peak, there were about fifty people being held there.

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