Guantanamo Is a Model Prison
This doesn’t sound like an immoral black-hole:
There is much talk in the media, in our capital and elsewhere about the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I have paid close attention to this dialogue, and after a year in command, it is clear that there are two Guantanamos: the one that exists in popular culture, and the one most discover when they actually see conditions there.
We house enemy combatants in one of several facilities according to their compliance with camp rules. Highly compliant detainees, approximately 20% of the population, live in Camp 4. Here they enjoy a communal, barracks-style environment, with movie nights, classes in Pashtu, Arabic and English, shared meals and prayers, and up to 12 hours of recreation per day.
Many of the enemy combatants, however, fail to comply with established rules. Offenses often include head-butting, kicking, biting and splashing young soldiers and sailors with feces and urine “cocktails.”
These detainees are housed in Camps 5 and 6 – modern, climate-controlled facilities modeled after existing U.S. prison facilities in the Midwest. They get a minimum of two, soon to be three, hours of outdoor recreation per day adjacent to three to five other detainees. And they are held in a block of single-occupancy cells where they communicate with other detainees, guards, medical staff, library assistants and mail delivery personnel. Prayers are led five times a day by a detainee-appointed Imam. Each cell contains an arrow that points to Mecca.
All detainees receive three-meals per day, a 4,000-calorie diet selected from six different menus that meet the halal cultural dietary requirements, and which provide for special needs such as low sodium, vegetarian or diabetic. We provide comfort items including sheets and bedding, uniforms, shoes, prayer beads, prayer rugs, toiletries and bottled water. Each detainee is issued a Quran in Arabic and one in his native language. An ever-expanding, 5,000 volume library is available for a weekly choice of reading material.
The whole article is worth a read.
A Model Prison is a PRISON.
They have modern method to let you tell what they want to hear.
Comment by 囧囧 — June 4, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
@ 囧囧:
Do you think we can have a world without prisons?
Comment by Owen — June 4, 2008 @ 11:40 pm
……haha……
1) a prison is a place where it deprive your freedom
2) a prison is a CORRECTION!!! HOUSE
3) a prison, is not a holiday inn.
Dear owen, will you continue to tell us, that in USA, people are trying to break in to the prison to live, and prisoners refused to be set free???
Comment by 囧囧 — June 5, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
Then why does John McCain want to close it?
Comment by Brian — June 12, 2008 @ 3:20 am
The highest court in the land has quite a few problems with the Bush prison in Cuba. This is America not Russia. Pull your head out.
Comment by The original anti-Mongo Bubba Flamo Kidd — June 25, 2008 @ 10:25 pm
The highest court in America also “gave” Bush the election, I’m sure you are fine with that decision too.
Moreover, the decision doesn’t have to do with the conditions itself, but with the legal right to a hearing…
Of course you probably read neither this article, or any articles about the decision.
Comment by Owen — June 26, 2008 @ 7:15 am
This description of Guantanamo is U.S.Propaganda and nothing else. never has a lawyer or journalist being admitted there to interview an inmate, and the interrogation methods same as in Abou Grahib where torture was mandatory, your description as being sort of a four star Hotel with American standards is pure Bullshit
Comment by Joe Walton — July 18, 2008 @ 3:08 am