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NY Times: Guantanamo Decaying

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2014 at 09:30:30 AM EST
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The New York Times has some new articles on the decaying of Guantanamo. Camp X-Ray is now a "ghost prison." Here are the photos.

The original complex, Camp X-Ray — with kennel-like cages that were used for about four months in 2002 while Delta was built — is a ghost prison, overrun by vegetation and banana rats, tropical rodents the size of opossums.

There's also a "FAQ" section on the future of Gitmo. Gitmo costs $443 million a year to operate -- $3 million per inmate (currently there are 143 inmates.) [More...]

From the article on the decaying of Gitmo:

The unit that houses the most notorious detainees is built on unstable ground — a floor is described as buckling — and will need replacement for any long-term use. In the kitchen building, temperatures soar to 110 degrees at midday, steel supports are corroded, and workers must cover dry goods with plastic tarps during storms because of a leaky roof. In the troops’ quarters, some guards are required to live six to a small shack, with poor ventilation and no attached bathrooms.

Who's guarding the detainees? (from the photos page.)

The detainees are now guarded by young enlisted soldiers who were in elementary school when their predecessors arrived here to build Camp X-Ray.

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