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The room where a federal prisoner sees his family, reached through a strip-search cell — where John Kiriakou's children came to accept where their father was, where a former CIA boss turned up unannounced, and which is closed entirely to prisoners held under special administrative measures.
The visiting room is where a federal prisoner sees the outside world, and in John Kiriakou’s account of FCI Loretto it is both the emotional centre of a sentence and a piece of machinery. Getting to it means going through a door that leads into a small strip-search room and activating a flashing light.[1]
The children
Kiriakou describes telling his children where he was going and then watching them adjust in the room itself: they were sad, but they accepted it, and after three or four visits the visits became ordinary.[2]
The visitor he did not expect
About a month into the sentence, one of his former CIA bosses appeared in the visiting room while his wife and children were there.[3]
When the room is closed
The visiting room is also where Kiriakou marks the difference between ordinary imprisonment and the special administrative measures imposed on national-security prisoners. A SAMs prisoner cannot use the visiting room while any other prisoner is present, which means every visit has to be separately coordinated — one of a set of restrictions he cites when describing what awaited Julian Assange in the American system.[4]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
