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title: ""Then there is Guantánamo Bay, where the expense now works out to…"
date: 2020-01-12
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# "Then there is Guantánamo Bay, where the expense now works out to…

*January 12, 2020 · Facebook*

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[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-cost-prison.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-cost-prison.html){target="_blank"}
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\"Then there is Guantánamo Bay, where the expense now works out to about \$13 million for each of the 40 prisoners being held there.\
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According to a tally by The New York Times, the total cost last year of holding the prisoners --- including the men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks --- paying for the troops who guard them, running the war court and doing related construction, exceeded \$540 million.\
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\...the military assigns around 1,800 troops to the detention center, or 45 for each prisoner.\
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The estimated annual cost of \$540 million covers the 12-month period that ended last Sept. 30 and does not include expenses that have remained classified, presumably including a continued C.I.A. presence.\
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The 2013 report put the total cost of building and operating the prison since 2002 at \$5.2 billion through 2014, a figure that now appears to have risen to past \$7 billion.\"\
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-cost-prison.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-cost-prison.html){target="_blank"}
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