Coordinates: 19°54′09″N 75°05′57″W / 19.9025°N 75.09917°W
Camp Delta, situated at 19°54′09″N 75°05′57″W / 19.9025°N 75.09917°W, composed of detention camps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Camp Platinum, Camp Iguana, the Guantanamo psychiatric ward, and Camp Echo, is a permanent detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. Its first facilities were built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root.[citation needed] The prisoners, referred to as detainees have uncertain rights due to their location not on American soil. There are allegations of torture and abuse of prisoners [1]
Most of the security forces are U.S. Army military police, and U.S. Navy Masters-at-Arms.
The camps have different amenities and levels of comfort. The arduous assignments[jargon] given to different parts of Camp Delta is determined by how much the prisoner cooperates with guards and interrogators, with the exception of newly arriving detainees who always go to maximum security in Camp 3. Thereafter, cooperative detainees are moved to Camp 2 and then Camp 1 as rewards for cooperation. When detainees cooperate and are thought to show no security risk they can be moved to the buildings of Camp 4, which have a shower and lavatory, plus four communal living rooms for 10 detainees each. In Camp 4, each detainnee has a bed and a locker. Camp 4 detainees may eat their meals together, instead of alone in their own cells as in the other camps, and Camp 4 detainees are set apart by their white jump suits, in contrast to the orange worn by detainees in other camps.[1]
See also
- Timeline of the history of Afghanistan
- Platt Amendment - Document that Guarantees U.S. Navy use in Cuba
- Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- List of Guantanamo Bay detainees
- Qur'an desecration controversy of 2005
- Guantanamo military commissions
- Administrative Review Board
- Camp Echo
- Camp Iguana
- Camp X-ray
References
- ^ Paul Harris (2005-05-08). "Soldier lifts lid on Camp Delta: For the first time, an army insider blows the whistle on human rights abuses at Guantánamo". Observer-Guardian (U.K). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/08/usa.guantanamo.
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