• controversial United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba that was established in January 2002
• temporary
• Detainees

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• Guantanamo Bay: Stories From Inside the World's Most Infamous Jail

   

  What it's like at the detention center where over 100 prisoners are on hunger strike
• Camp X-Ray
• is all weeds and decaying wood shacks now
• opening in January 2002 and closing four months later,
• housed as many as 300 detainees
• long-abandoned facility. "Those are the pipes for urination,

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• Its first facilities were built between 27 February and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root.
• Camp Platinum, Camp Iguana, the Guantanamo psychiatric ward, Camp Echo and Camp No
• There are allegations of torture and abuse of prisoners
• The camps have different amenities and levels of comfor
• newly arriving detainees who always go to maximum security in Camp 3.
• 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
• cooperative detainees are moved to Camp 2 and then Camp 1 as rewards for cooperation
• 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. In addition to these benefits, detainees are also allowed special meal supplements to their diets, along with longer shower periods and longer exercise periods.
• "enemy combatants in extrajudicial detention"
• 25 detainees in adjacent cells

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