Security Confinement News Today

Minister, a former army chief of staff. these are men who at guantanamo were held in communal security confinement, did not give the guards a hard time, and spent their days eating together, praying together, being allowed to have recreation together. they were not the hunger strikers. they were not force fed and they were cooperative captives. the other 149 include 78 men who are on a list who could theoretically be transferred to their home nations, or to third country resettlement. they range...

The vast majority were considered to be communal captives kept in medium security confinement the guards were on the outside looking in, the detainees were on the inside organizing their own lives. when i went back down there about ten days ago after this raid, virtually every detainee down there is under lockdown, one man to a cell, kept inside as many as 22 hours a day, can be all day if he refuses recreation. the way he got to recreation before during the earlier part of the obama years until...

Office. what did you have mean by that? >> communal was the norm, meaning that groups of detainees, 8, 10, 12, got to eat together, pray together, watch tv together. the vast majority were considered to be communal captives kept in medium security confinement the guards were on the outside looking in, the detainees were on the inside organizing their own lives. when i went back down there about ten days ago after this raid, virtually every detainee down there is under lockdown, one man to a cell...