Internment

Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. Collins English dictionary adds that the term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement, rather than confinement after having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities.

Interned persons may be held at prisons or at facilities known as internment camps. In certain contexts, these may also be known either officially or pejoratively, as concentration camps.

Internment also refers to the practice of neutral countries in time of war in detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment in their territories under the Hague Convention of 1907.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights restricts the use of internment. Article 9 states that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."

Internment (The Walking Dead)

"Internment" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on November 10, 2013. The episode was written by Channing Powell and directed by David Boyd. In the episode, multiple threats pressure the prison inhabitants: the increase of walkers outside the prison gates, and the deteriorating conditions of the people infected by the deadly virus. It marks the return of The Governor (David Morrissey), who has been absent since the season 3 finale "Welcome to the Tombs".

Plot

Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) returns to the prison and informs Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan), who had been clearing a large herd of walkers at the fence, about banishing Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) for killing two of their own. Inside the quarantined A Block, conditions continue to worsen for those infected by the deadly virus. Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson) tends to the patients, with the aid of Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun). Hershel starts closing everyone's cell doors, following the advice of the dying Dr. Caleb Subramanian (Sunkrish Bala), and kills those who succumb to the virus away from the others' view.