Crystal City Family Internment Camp was staffed by local civilian employees in secretarial and clerical positions, civilian nurses and doctors, a professional cadre of Immigration and Naturalization Service administrators and Border Patrolmen, and later local men from Crystal City as guards. J.L. O'Rourke was the officer in charge, and under him camp functions were allocated to the Administrative Service, Surveillance, Internal Security and Internal Relations, Maintenance, Construction and Repair, Education, and Medical divisions. The Third Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, adopted in 1929, also applied to enemy aliens interned in Immigration and Naturalization Service camps and was monitored by the International Red Cross, setting provisions for food, living space, and clothing that often exceeded the housing and living conditions of the rationing public in Zavala County. To comply with international law and promote as positive an environment as possible, the camp was designed much like a small community, with numerous buildings for food stores, auditoriums, warehouses, administration offices, a 70-bed hospital, places of worship, a post office, bakery, barber shop, beauty shop, school system, a Japanese sumo wrestling ring, and a German beer garten. Internees printed four camp newspapers: the Crystal City Times in English, the Jiji Kai in Japanese, Los Andes in Spanish, and Das Lager in German. In accordance with the Third Geneva Convention, no internee had to perform manual labor against their will, but those who wanted to work could earn 10 cents per hour up to a maximum of $4 per week in jobs such as store clerks, hospital staff, librarians, laundry workers, shoe repairmen, furniture and mattress factory workers, janitors, barbers, beauticians, administrative office workers, and agricultural laborers in the camp’s orange orchard, vegetable gardens, and surrounding fields. To prevent internees from stockpiling cash in the event of an escape attempt, camp scrip made of pressed paper and plastic tokens resembling coins or poker chips was issued instead of legal tender, although there were no reported escape attempts, successful or otherwise, from Crystal City Family Internment Camp.