US Plans to Build Permanent Prison on Guantanamo (aljazeera)

Besides the article, there are some interesting messages on this website.

snippet:
The Pentagon is planning to build a permanent jail at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the army wants to create a full-time guard force to watch over the detainees.

The move comes as federal judges are trying to determine whether the U.S. has the right to detain suspects indefinitely in its "war on terror".

Pentagon officials proposed building a permanent 200-cell concrete prison to replace the temporary cells where about 550 detainees are held, at a cost of $25 million.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=6272#

from 2003 ...

Posted on Sun, Aug. 24, 2003

Growth at base shows firm stand on military detention

Cells with concrete walls planned at Guantánamo

BY CHARLES SAVAGE

"Twenty months after it opened as a short-term solution early in America's war on terrorism, this much-criticized military detention and interrogation camp is evolving from wire mesh to concrete."

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"The contractor is Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Texas-based Halliburton. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense says the subsidiary received $1.3 billion in government business last year -- much of it, like this, without having to enter a bid."

"Halliburton referred questions to Navy public affairs officer John Peters, who said via e-mail that Camp Five will have about 24,000 square feet when completed in mid-2004. It was part of a $25 million task order issued June 6."

"Miller said it will increase Camp Delta's detainee capacity by 100, to 1,100, but its main purpose will be ''an enlargement of our ability to do interrogations'' -- now conducted in trailers at the camp's edge."

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/6604462.htm
linked thru http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Guantanamo

Also think how handy this prison would be if B* decides to attack Cuba. And to think we pay only a few thousand $$ a year to rent Guantanamo Base and Castro doesn't even cash the checks!