Camp 6

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Camp six, under construction.
Camp six, under construction.
Michael Mullens, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tours a typical cell in camp six, Guantanamo.
Michael Mullens, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tours a typical cell in camp six, Guantanamo.
JCS mullens tours exercise yard in camp six, Guantanamo.
JCS mullens tours exercise yard in camp six, Guantanamo.

Camp 6 is one of the camps for captives held in extrajudicial detention within the Guantanamo Bay detention camp complex in Cuba.[1][2]

The Guantanamo camps were organized to separate the captives based on how compliant the captives were perceived to be.[1]

Camp X-ray, the original camp, retired in 2003, housed prisoners in open-air wire-mesh cages, with no toilet facilities.

Camp 4 was the camp for the most compliant captives, where captives lived in communal barracks rather than individual cells, and were allowed access to a communal exercise yard for most of the day.[1]

Camp Six, constructed by Halliburton, was modeled on US Federal medium-security penitentiaries.[1][2][3] It was constructed to have individual cells that surrounded and looked in on a communal mess area, where it was planned compliant captives could interact for part of the day. However, while the building was still under construction, the decision was made to confine all captives to their cells, except when they were taken to shower, taken for solitary exercise, or for official business.[4][5] The communal areas are left unused. This transformed the facility to a high-security facility.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Jonathan Pearlman. "Hicks's window on the world", Sydney Morning Herald, November 28, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-01. 
  2. ^ a b Andrew Buncombe. "New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay", The Independent, July 30, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-01. 
  3. ^ "Halliburton Gets Gitmo Contract", FOX News, Tuesday, June 21, 2005. Retrieved on 2008-02-01. 
  4. ^ Nicki Thomas. "'He is a broken young man'", Edmonton Sun, Wednesday, May 30, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-02-01. 
  5. ^ Ben Fox. "Life Harsher in New Guantanamo Unit", Washington Post, Saturday, February 3, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-02-01.