Visitation at Camp Bucca

Wednesday April 2, 2008

Camp Bucca, Iraq - One of the first days that we were at Camp Bucca, the reporter and I got to visit the visitation center for the camp. The theater detainee camps have a family visitation program, where family members of detainees can visit their loved ones. This is an open visitation where couples can hold hands and even pass children back and forth.

At the reception center, Iraqi families are given donations sent from the U.S. This is not always as orderly as the military would like due to the differences in cultures.

The international Red Cross works at the reception center, to screen for illnesses and record what the conditions are where the families are coming from.

The actual visitation center is of course highly guarded, but it does give the families a small chance to see one another.