Post by Police Moderator on Apr 29, 2013 18:31:57 GMT -5
Life under lockdown at America’s hunger-striking prison camps
America’s offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare. A look at life at the prison where nearly every captive is under lockdown.
By CAROL ROSENBERG
America’s offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare. A look at life at the prison where nearly every captive is under lockdown.
By CAROL ROSENBERG
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Dozens of brand-new personal DVD players for the prisoners are stashed in a closet, a perk the military has now put on hold. The $744,000 soccer field is empty. The halal kitchen still cooks three meals a day for each prisoner, but guards throw most of the food away.
With nearly every one of the 166 Guantánamo prisoners now under lockdown — back in solitary existence after years of communal living — the military has reverted to a battle rhythm reminiscent of the Bush administration.
Pre-cleared captives awaiting political change are confined for long stretches to 8-by-12 cells, each man praying behind his own steel door, deciding for himself whether to eat a solitary meal.
Meantime, troops are back to managing the most intimate aspects of a detainee’s daily life — when he will be shackled and taken to a shower, when he’ll be shackled and taken to a recreation yard, when he’ll get to hear the call to prayer through a slot in the door rather than muffled through the prison’s walls.
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Hell, they don't wanna eat? Don't feed 'em.
- (1) Reduces food costs and helps out the sequester cuts elsewhere.
- (2) Proves Darwin had it right in the first place.
- (3) Cruel and unusual punishment only applies to the activities of the US Government, not to choices individual prisoners make
