Gitmo Numbers

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 7:33pm | posted by United Liberty Staff

From our friends at Young Americans for Liberty and @bonniekristian

$800,000: Annual cost to tax-payers of maintaining one prisoner in Guantanamo Bay.

166: The number of prisoners currently in Gitmo.

86: The number of prisoners currently in Gitmo who have been cleared for release but not actually released.

46: Detainees scheduled for indefinite detention without charge or trial.

15: The age of arrest of the youngest Gitmo detainee ever, Omar Khadr, who was “tortured and refused medical attention” because he would not confess.

15: The number of prisoners under the age of 18 who have been kept at Gitmo.

9: The number of inmate deaths at Guantanamo Bay.

6: The number of those deaths suspected to be suicides.

2009: The year Obama was supposed to close Gitmo.

2013: The year he closed the office dedicated to closing Gitmo.

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Should we all say that get rid of Gitmo and use the money in more productive ways? Wow, I had no idea it is very costly keeping an enemy of the government locked up. - Casa Sandoval

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Casa Sandoval on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 6:24pm.

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