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Pentagon Spends $900K Per Inmate at Gitmo
Saturday, 18 May 2013
The Pentagon spends more than $150 million a year running the
Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba — and the military could spend as
much as $170 million more upgrading it.
The cost equals a little more than $900,000 for each of the 166
detainees there, CNN reports.
By comparison, costs to house a typical federal prison inmate run
about $25,000 a year, CNN reports, and at the “supermax” prison in
Colorado that holds such domestic terrorists as Eric Rudolph and Ted
Kaczynski, the costs are about $60,000.
“We have to always plan to conduct that mission from now into the
future,” Army Col. John Bogdan, commander of the military's Joint
Detention Group at Guantanamo, told CNN on Friday. “And the
policymakers will decide when that mission's over.”
Despite yet another recent pledge by President Barack Obama to close
Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon’s renovation plans include a $50 million
overhaul for Camp VII, the most secretive part of the compound, CNN
reports.
Held there are such inmates as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the
self-professed organizer of the attacks on New York and Washington on
Sept. 11, 2001; accused co-conspirators Walid bin Attash and Ramzi Bin
al-Shahb; and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is charged with leading the
plot to bomb the USS Cole in Yemen, which killed 17 American sailors.
Guantanamo Bay, located on a Navy base on the eastern end of Cuba, is
11 years old — and 100 of its inmates marked 100 days of a hunger
strike on Friday, protesting their continued imprisonment, CNN
reports.
Eighty-six of the 166 detainees have been approved to be transferred
out, but the White House and Congress have essentially stopped the
moves, CNN reports.
The last set of transfers occurred in September — and the State
Department office tasked with finding countries that would take the
others was closed in January.
Because Guantanamo Bay was hastily built and never thought to be
permanent, it may need as much as $170 million more in repairs, said
Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, the chief of U.S. forces in the region,
CNN reports.
“This is really a kind of thrown-together operation,” Kelly told the
House Armed Services Committee in March, CNN reports. “It's really not
11 years long. It's really one year, 11 times.”
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Pentagon Spends $900K Per Inmate at Gitmo
Saturday, 18 May 2013
The Pentagon spends more than $150 million a year running the
Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba — and the military could spend as
much as $170 million more upgrading it.
The cost equals a little more than $900,000 for each of the 166
detainees there, CNN reports.
By comparison, costs to house a typical federal prison inmate run
about $25,000 a year, CNN reports, and at the “supermax” prison in
Colorado that holds such domestic terrorists as Eric Rudolph and Ted
Kaczynski, the costs are about $60,000.
“We have to always plan to conduct that mission from now into the
future,” Army Col. John Bogdan, commander of the military's Joint
Detention Group at Guantanamo, told CNN on Friday. “And the
policymakers will decide when that mission's over.”
Despite yet another recent pledge by President Barack Obama to close
Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon’s renovation plans include a $50 million
overhaul for Camp VII, the most secretive part of the compound, CNN
reports.
Held there are such inmates as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the
self-professed organizer of the attacks on New York and Washington on
Sept. 11, 2001; accused co-conspirators Walid bin Attash and Ramzi Bin
al-Shahb; and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is charged with leading the
plot to bomb the USS Cole in Yemen, which killed 17 American sailors.
Guantanamo Bay, located on a Navy base on the eastern end of Cuba, is
11 years old — and 100 of its inmates marked 100 days of a hunger
strike on Friday, protesting their continued imprisonment, CNN
reports.
Eighty-six of the 166 detainees have been approved to be transferred
out, but the White House and Congress have essentially stopped the
moves, CNN reports.
The last set of transfers occurred in September — and the State
Department office tasked with finding countries that would take the
others was closed in January.
Because Guantanamo Bay was hastily built and never thought to be
permanent, it may need as much as $170 million more in repairs, said
Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, the chief of U.S. forces in the region,
CNN reports.
“This is really a kind of thrown-together operation,” Kelly told the
House Armed Services Committee in March, CNN reports. “It's really not
11 years long. It's really one year, 11 times.”
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Denny, Lee Curtis, LiberalHere, Lickin Ass' and Fakin' Military Service,
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