Guantanamo Bay costs U.S. $13 million per prisoner

Sep 18, 20190

Doug Mills – New York Times count

Members of the military saluted the U.S. flag in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in April. Set up nearly 18 years ago to house detainees in the war on terrorism, the prison on the remote naval base has grown into what appears to be the most expensive on Earth. The photo was reviewed by U.S. military censors.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - Holding Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess as the lone prisoner in Germany's Spandau Prison in 1985 cost an estimated $1.5 million in today's dollars. The per-prisoner bill in 2012 at the "supermax" facility in Colorado, home to some of the highest-risk prisoners in the United States, was $78,000.

Then there is Guantanamo Bay, where the expense now works out to about $13 million for each of the 40 prisoners being held there.

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