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Iraq: Unrest at Abu Ghraib as Camp Bucca Closes
Loaded on May 15, 2010
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2010, page 30
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
International,
Prisoners-International,
Political Prisoners (International),
Terrorism,
Military Prisons.
Location:
Iraq.
In September 2009 the U.S. military closed Camp Bucca in Iraq, once its largest detention facility, and the prison at Abu Ghraib experienced a two-day uprising. Camp Bucca cost the U.S. $50 million to build and once held over 22,000 prisoners in separate camps. It was permanently ...
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