> Concentration camps are just worse than usual prisons A concentration camp is a detention facility for holding people without pressing charges or the intent

> Concentration camps are just worse than usual prisons A concentration camp is a detention facility for holding people without pressing charges or the intent to immediately press charges. > it's who is selected to be sent to the camp and that they can never leave You can't leave a prison until your sentence is done. You typically don't get to leave concentration camps unless it's a time limited internment camp. > People in prisons or concentration camps often have to work against their will That's true but penal labor is not the same as forced labor in concentration camps. Penal labor is regulated and is specifically as a punishment to an indicted crime. There are certainly issues with penal labor, but it's not the same as working Concentration camp detainees literally to death. Concentration camps use labor typically as a means to kill the people in the Concentration camp - who are not there because they've been charged (rather, they usually are detained on ethnic origin). An immigration holding facility is not a concentration camp because the detainees are being charged and released (either via deportation or local release). Further, labor is not used in an immigration holding facility (but if you're charged and transferred to a prison, then you might have penal labor). There are plenty of gripes to have with the prison system (especially the for profit prison system). There are gripes to have with immigration holding facilities. To call either one a concentration camp is to devalue and horrendously understate the horror of concentration camps.