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Camp Bucca

Closed 2009Low
Verified 29 May 2026
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  • (Left to right) Sadique Madathilatte, an AAFES employee at Camp Bucca, and a Kozhikode, Kerala, India, native, and Pfc. Hassan Walker, financial specialist for the 9th Financial Management Company, 3rd 101207-A-IX787-490.jpg

    Photo by Specialist Matthew G. Keeler via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • (Left to right) Sgt. Estelsy Negron, dispersing manager, and a Los Angeles, Calif., native, and Pfc. Hassan Walker, financial specialist, and an Augusta, Ga., native, both with the 9th Financial Management 101207-A-IX787-415.jpg

    Photo by Specialist Matthew G. Keeler via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • 1-10 FA Soldiers learn through change DVIDS51624.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • 1-10 FA Soldiers learn through change DVIDS51625.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • 220th Military Police Company Returns From Operation Iraqi Freedom DVIDS137772.jpg

    Photo by Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Clark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Activities DVIDS161586.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Activities DVIDS161587.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Activities DVIDS161588.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Background

Camp Bucca (Arabic: سجن بوكا, romanized: Sijn Būkā) was a forward operating base that housed a theater internment facility maintained by the United States military in the vicinity of Umm Qasr, Iraq. After being taken over by the U.S. military (800th Military Police Brigade) in April 2003, it was renamed after Ronald Bucca, the only New York City fire marshal in history to be killed in the line of duty, during the 11 September 2001 attacks. The site where Camp Bucca was built had earlier housed the tallest structure in Iraq, a 492-meter-high TV mast. After the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, many detainees from Abu Ghraib were transferred to Bucca, where U.S. authorities hoped to showcase a model detention facility. Nevertheless, Camp Bucca was the scene of prisoner abuse documented over many years by the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and U.S. Army investigators.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

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Occupancy

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Year opened

2003

Closed 2009

Facility profile

Operator

United States Army

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

2003

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

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Mailing

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