Camp Bucca

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.

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World Prisons. (2026). Camp Bucca. Retrieved July 22, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/camp-bucca

"Camp Bucca." World Prisons. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/camp-bucca.

@misc{worldprisons-camp-bucca,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Camp Bucca},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/camp-bucca},
  urldate = {2026-07-22}
}