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| Big changes at Iraq detention centers |
| By Medill Reports |
| Published: 03/21/2008 |
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IRAQ - As recently as one year ago, words like “hope” and “opportunity” would have little place in a story about detention centers in Iraq. But Maj. Gen. Doug Stone, who took responsibility for the detention operation in April 2007, has shifted its focus to the rehabilitation, education and strategic release of detainees. His “full-spectrum” approach incorporates job training, family visits, education, health care and periodic reviews in front of judicial boards rather than focusing mainly on incarceration. The initiatives, says Col. Michael Stone (no relation to Maj. Gen. Stone), have helped lower the tension levels at the two main facilities, Camp Cropper in Baghdad and the much larger Camp Bucca near Basra in southern Iraq, to which many former inmates of Abu Ghraib were transferred after the prisoner mistreatment scandal there came to light. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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