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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 05:45 PM Feb 2018

Pentagon wants to replace Guantanamo's Top Secret prison. Price per prisoner: $4.6M

Source: Miami Herald



BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@miamiherald.com

February 13, 2018 11:52 AM

Updated 56 minutes ago

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, CUBA - The Pentagon wants $69 million to replace the Top Secret prison where the accused 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and 14 other former CIA captives are kept.

The funding request, included in a massive 2019 Department of Defense budget package released Monday, warns that the current prison, Camp 7, is at risk of mechanical, electrical and secure-communications failure, which would be risky to the U.S. Army guards who work there.

Under the proposal, the “maximum-security detention facility” should last for 40 years and include a confidential, “legal visitation area.”

The construction proposal does not indicate how many cells the new prison would hold but stated, without explanation, that the facility “will be available for use by other components.”

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article199832664.html

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Pentagon wants to replace Guantanamo's Top Secret prison. Price per prisoner: $4.6M (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
That might just be the scariest Zoonart Feb 2018 #1
We sure as hell can't afford this if the Treasury is going broke FakeNoose Feb 2018 #2
just close that damn thing and give the land back to the cubans AllaN01Bear Feb 2018 #3
Due process is only for Republicans and white folk. That the federal justice system fears these Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #4
The DoD and MIC will bleed this country dry if given the chance Scalded Nun Feb 2018 #5
Why don't we just burn the money? Vinca Feb 2018 #6
That was the second part of the Al Qeada strategy Turbineguy Feb 2018 #7
smh Solly Mack Feb 2018 #8
"....will be available for use by other components. pangaia Feb 2018 #9
At 4.6 million per year per prisoner WiseElder Feb 2018 #10

Zoonart

(11,875 posts)
1. That might just be the scariest
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 05:54 PM
Feb 2018

thing I've read all day, Don. Of the Pentagon is going to sink that much money in that hole they must be preparing for an influx of prisoners.

FakeNoose

(32,714 posts)
2. We sure as hell can't afford this if the Treasury is going broke
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 05:56 PM
Feb 2018

In one breath they tell us how broke we are, and in another they tell us they want to rebuild a completely unnecessary prison that's not even on American soil.

Oh but they are going to gut Medicare and Social Security, you can bet on that. Fuck these guys!

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. Due process is only for Republicans and white folk. That the federal justice system fears these
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 06:00 PM
Feb 2018

15 people is a failure of will and morality. And America's shame.

Put them on trial, prove the charges, do the sentence in federal max prison. No idea what the propaganda line is for why not trust the already in place for two hundred year old system.

Scalded Nun

(1,236 posts)
5. The DoD and MIC will bleed this country dry if given the chance
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 06:24 PM
Feb 2018

They are already well on their way and this shit has got to stop.

You could fund just about every domestic program just with their obscene waste and our security posture would not suffer one iota.

Turbineguy

(37,362 posts)
7. That was the second part of the Al Qeada strategy
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 06:26 PM
Feb 2018

make imprisonment of their people as expensive as possible.

WiseElder

(132 posts)
10. At 4.6 million per year per prisoner
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 07:12 PM
Feb 2018

We could just turn them lose offer to give them each a million a year to behave and and come out way ahead.

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