Internment's the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives the meaning as: "The action of ‘interning’; confinement within the limits of a country or place". Most modern usage's about individuals, and there's a distinction between internment, which's being confined usually for preventive or political reasons, and imprisonment, which's being closely confined as a punishment for crime. "Internment" also r… (More on Internment)