Editing Defence Regulation 18B (section)

==Life for 18B detainees==
A person subject to 18B would be arrested without warning. Some were in the forces and were arrested while on parade. They would be taken first to police cells and then to prison. The first detainees were sent to [[HM Prison Wandsworth]] for men and [[HM Prison Holloway]] for women, but the men were later moved to [[HM Prison Brixton]]. With the expansion in numbers in 1940 came a shortage of prison accommodation, so some derelict wings of prisons (including [[Stafford]] and [[Liverpool]] women's prison) were brought back into use to house internees.

Eventually it was decided to hold the internees in camps. The winter quarters of [[Bertram Mills]]'s [[circus]] provided one camp at [[Ascot Racecourse]], and uncompleted [[council housing]] at [[Huyton]] near Liverpool was used from March 1941. Finally the authorities solved the accommodation problem, both for 18B internees and for interned enemy aliens by setting up camps on the [[Isle of Man]]. A new Act of Parliament, the [[Isle of Man (Detention) Act 1941]], was needed to authorise the transfer. The men stayed at Peveril Camp, [[Peel, Isle of Man|Peel]], and the women at Rushen Camp, [[Port Erin]]. A small number of designated leaders remained in Wandsworth Prison throughout, for greater security. In a few cases husbands and wives who had both been interned were later allowed to live together.

The regime in the camps was relatively liberal. Free association was permitted and there were some entertainments, even including trips to cinemas.