Inside the Guantanamo Detention Facility: A Slideshow Look

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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Today, 181 prisoners remain at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, despite the Obama administration's initial pledge to close the facility by this past January.

The administration plans to move some detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in northern Illinois. The rest have either received a recommendation for release from the Department of Justice or would be transferred overseas. But the planning process has been slowed by the need to get congressional funding for the purchase of the new facility and by complaints from human rights groups. They argue that relocation will not alleviate concerns about the legality of detaining terrorist suspects indefinitely without trial or the use of military commissions to prosecute some of them.

While the administration wrestles with the future of Guantanamo, it has made an effort to improve both the conditions in the camp and the public's perception of it. Newly branded as "safe, humane, legal, transparent" by the Department of the Defense, some of the facilities feature communal living, television, and language classes for prisoners. However access to sections of the facility, such as Camp 7, where some high value detainees are being held, remains extremely limited.

Click below to watch a slideshow on the current living conditions inside the detention facilities at Guantanamo.

Filed Under: Terror, Military

Tagged: detainees, Guantanamo Bay, guantanamo bay prison, GuantanamoBay, GuantanamoBayPrison, prisoners

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vankj

I believe it was wrong of the President NOT to release the photos of the treatment that was given to prisoners in our name---remember everything that was done was done by every single American-- after WW11 ALL Germans had to take responsibility for what Hitler did. All Americans need to take responsibility. After all it was sanctioned by those in power at the time.

May 29 2010 at 3:18 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply

colin@politicsdaily.com

Really enjoyed the audio slideshow, but couldn't help hearing the irony as the general discussed the "openness" in the design of Guantanamo Bay, of all places.

May 29 2010 at 12:23 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

captivespirits

Did'nt pres.0. say in his campaign that he would close gitmo within so many mos.after starting the job? Was it in the 1st 48 mos?

May 29 2010 at 11:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jancf

It's a miracle he's gotten ANYTHING done, with the unmitigated determination on the part of the GOP to block every single thing he's tried to do from the very beginning.

May 29 2010 at 5:14 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply