The authors and their teams clearly took into consideration that these could be military bases and they talk about it to some extant. I'm sure it could still be the case that some of these are barracks and the Chinese make their barracks look like detention centers. Some of the locations they found have been verified by other sources though.
We also have that drone footage of detainees being transported, right?
Also, the leaked document from the NYTimes talked an awful lot about security, not letting people escape, and not letting images or information of the camps be leaked for a normal vocational school.
The Wuhan hospital parking lot study was pretty bad, but worse things have come out of Harvard Medical School in recent months.