The camp is built mainly of wooden, semipermanent SEA (Southeast Asian) huts[5] and is surrounded by a 2.5 m (8.2 ft) high earthen wall.

Camp Bondsteel has several facilities on base, all built with US military aid, that are used by both soldiers and civilian employees alike.

[4] Camp Bondsteel is not open to inspections by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), which has the right to visit all "places of detention" of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Negotiations with KFOR were underway but were suspended because of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence, which was not recognised by the Council of Europe.

[7] In November 2005, Álvaro Gil-Robles, the human rights envoy of the Council of Europe, described the camp as a "smaller version of Guantanamo" following a visit.