The Guantánamo Bay detention center is a 45-mile stretch of land the U.S. has leased from Cuba since the Spanish-American War. After 9/11, President Bush needed a place where Due Process, the courts, and lawyers couldn't reach 780 men and boys, many of whom were sold to the U.S. military for a $5,000 bounty. Who and what have we kept at Guantánamo Bay for the last 22 years? Terrorists? No. A legal blackhole? Yes.

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SOURCE CITED: The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. Explore the complete archive of narratives at http://dlib.nyu.edu/guantanamo

"The Guantánamo Docket": https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html

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