The entrance to Camp 1 in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta. Photo via DoD
The Warzone/The Drive: We Now Know What Books and Movies are in the Guantanamo Bay Prison Library
The Harry Potter series and its brutal, fictional jail Azkaban have made notable impressions on the inmates.
The U.S. military’s detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – almost universally known as “Gitmo” and often abbreviated “GTMO” – is controversial to say the least, prompting continued and heated debates over torture and other legal issues, as well being a lightning rod for general criticism of U.S. counter-terrorism operations around the world. But the camp is also a prison with many of the same banal features of any other such facility, including a library, and thanks to an enterprising individual’s Freedom of Information Act Request, we now know what’s in its somewhat eclectic catalog.
In July 2015, a private individual submitted a FOIA request for the “GTMO Inmate Library Catalogue of Books” and the “GTMO Inmate Library Catalogue of Videos/Films.” Nearly two years later, U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the Guantanamo Bay naval base and Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), sent along the more than 600 pages listing all the items in the library’s various catalogs, including duplicates. Government transparency website GovernmentAttic.org posted a copy of these records online in August 2017.
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Update: The DoD Just Released A List Of Every Movie And Book in Gitmo’s Prison Library (Task & Purpose)
WNU Editor: The entire list is here (the link is here). Interestingly .... the Bible is not on the list, but there are 157 DVDs and books on the Koran.
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