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.
Southcom’s commander, Marine Gen. John F. Kelly:
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“Never, ever, ever, ever, ever reward bad behavior.”
Gen. Kelly appears to have forgotten most of the detainees have been deemed "innocent".
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