The militia is always looking for a way to create good public relations.
So, how about...
when these camps are activated, they are surrounded, seized, all prisoners released and every single prison employee from the janitor to the guards publicly executed.
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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