$3.3 Million A Year For Each Gitmo Inmate

Posted by | September 20, 2015 18:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics

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The New York Times Sunday editorial focuses on closing the prison and Guantanamo Bay. It’s long overdue.

As of Friday, 115 detainees remain. Nearly half — 53 men — have been cleared for release. The remaining prisoners include 10 who have been convicted in military tribunals or have cases before them, and 52 who have never been charged with a crime but for whom there is currently no path to freedom or due process.

“And it’s not sustainable,” as Mr. Obama said of the prison camp in 2013, in a nice bit of understatement. “The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried — that is contrary to who we are, it is contrary to our interests, and it needs to stop.”

…Republican lawmakers have stood in the way of closing the prison since 2010 by passing legislation that bars the administration from transferring detainees to the United States. They have played on public fears, even though the detainees could be held securely in federal prisons at a tiny fraction of the $3.3 million a year it costs to hold an inmate at Guantánamo.

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10 responses to $3.3 Million A Year For Each Gitmo Inmate

  1. Kick Frenzy September 20th, 2015 at 18:43

    Dear GOP,
    If you oppose closing Gitmo, you are not conservative.
    Please let your constituents know.

    That is all.

    • whatthe46 September 20th, 2015 at 18:49

      notice 3 mil is not would they’d rather use to feed the poor.

      • jasperjava September 21st, 2015 at 01:57

        Feed the poor? That’s SO-SHUH-LIZM!

  2. Larry Schmitt September 20th, 2015 at 18:52

    I thought the headline was saying each inmate had been awarded $3m after their release.

    • whatthe46 September 20th, 2015 at 18:57

      you made me choke.

  3. Obewon September 20th, 2015 at 19:01

    $400 M+ spent annually by GOP congress preventing prisoner transfers, to make BHO44 a one term President…

    • Larry Schmitt September 20th, 2015 at 19:14

      Worked like a charm, didn’t it?

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  4. StoneyCurtisll September 20th, 2015 at 20:36

    This whole Gitmo thing is illegal and unconstitutional, this is why it exist in Cuba and not in the USA..
    Bush /Cheney set this illegal/unconstitutional holding pen up outside of the United States knowing full well they didn’t have to put anyone on trial, much less convict them of any crime, and they could hold them forever..
    They (Gitmo detainees) have no right to a trial, counsel, and they dont even have to be charged with a crime..

    Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas Senator Pat Roberts are in full freak out mode because the brand new USDB,(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks) is where they went to house the ‘Gitmo terrorist”..

  5. robert September 22nd, 2015 at 04:07

    trials were set to begin but our gop has yet to continue

    where is trey gowdy ?

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