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Gordon Hirabayashi was held without bail for five months, until, at his trial, a jury found him guilty after deliberating for all of ten minutes. Min Yasui was convicted by a federal judge and sentenced to a year in prison and a $ 5,000 fine, the maximum under the law. Yasui was then held in solitary confinement in the county jail for nine months, denied exercise periods, showers, and a haircut. Fred Korematsu was also quickly found guilty and sent to the concentration camp in Topaz, Utah. Later, he would say, “I didn’t feel guilty because I didn’t do anything wrong … Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, ‘with liberty and justice for all,’ and I believed all that. I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
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Lawrence Goldstone (Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus))