A new report says the Pentagon will have spent a whopping $5.242 billion on its notorious detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba by the end of 2014.
The report by the Defense Department’s Office of the Comptroller puts the cost of operating the Guantanamo prison camp at $454.1 million for the current year.
The Pentagon spends $2.7 million per Guantanamo detainee which is by far the largest cost per prisoner ever calculated, according to the report which was first provided to Congress by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on June 27 and made public last week.
“Do the math: 166 prisoners, $454 million. We are spending $2.7 million per year for each a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay,” Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill) said last week.
“What does it cost to put a prisoner and keep them in the safest and most secure prison in America in Florence, Colorado? $78,000 a year against $2.7 million that we’re spending in Guantanamo.”
The total costs are likely even higher as the figure does not appear to include the prison’s $13.5 million headquarters and a secret lockup for former CIA prisoners, according to the Miami Herald. Full story...
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The report by the Defense Department’s Office of the Comptroller puts the cost of operating the Guantanamo prison camp at $454.1 million for the current year.
The Pentagon spends $2.7 million per Guantanamo detainee which is by far the largest cost per prisoner ever calculated, according to the report which was first provided to Congress by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on June 27 and made public last week.
“Do the math: 166 prisoners, $454 million. We are spending $2.7 million per year for each a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay,” Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill) said last week.
“What does it cost to put a prisoner and keep them in the safest and most secure prison in America in Florence, Colorado? $78,000 a year against $2.7 million that we’re spending in Guantanamo.”
The total costs are likely even higher as the figure does not appear to include the prison’s $13.5 million headquarters and a secret lockup for former CIA prisoners, according to the Miami Herald. Full story...
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