[4] Sixteen cages of chain-link fencing topped with razor wire were erected at the bus station under the canopies to house up to 700 people.
[5] The facility was fully lit at night with electric power generated by an Amtrak engine running 24 hours.
The single public defender was unable to offer individual advice; the only options were to plead guilty and agree to community service, or to be sent to a permanent facility and wait a minimum of 21 days for further processing.
[13] Reports emerged indicating innocent people being incarcerated for a prolonged time; first at Camp Greyhound and then transferred to outside prisons.
He spent time at Camp Greyhound and then at a permanent jail without ever having access to a lawyer, being charged with a crime, or having a court hearing before his eventual release seven months later.
[15] In 2009, Dan Berger argued that journalistic routines and uncritical reporting by the media "legitimated punishment as disaster policy" and "suggested militarized policing and imprisonment as fundamental to restore order".
[16] In 2011, James Fox from the New Statesman opined that Camp Greyhound was "known for organized brutality, a little-known, near-exact facsimile of Guantanamo Bay".