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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Gitmo Costs $800K/Year Per Detainee

The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, returning to Gitmo for the arraignment of alleged USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, reports how much the island prison is costing American taxpayers these days.

The Pentagon detention center that started out in January 2002 as a collection of crude open-air cells guarded by Marines in a muddy tent city is today arguably the most expensive prison on earth, costing taxpayers $800,000 annually for each of the 171 captives by Obama administration reckoning.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How much would 171 bullets cost? They could even make money by selling lottery tickets for 171 chances to pull the trigger. As an added bonus, this would be a one-time expenditure instead of a long term annual expense. Makes more than perfect sense to me.