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Sat Feb 17, 2018, 11:10 AM
Feb 2018

Total Guantanamo Bay Prison Facility Costs

Cost of Guantanamo prison facility up to the end of 2015: $5.687 billion
Cost for 2015: $445 million
Not included in above costs:
Cost of camp headquarters, built in 2004: $13.5 million
Cost of Camp 7 (for “high-value” detainees): Classified
Cost of Justice Department, FBI, and CIA involvement in detention operations: Unknown
2014 Costs

Money appropriated by Congress for un-built fiber-optic cable: $31 million
U.S. Army costs for operations and maintenance, including contract intelligence analysts, librarians and linguists: $61.5 million
U.S. Navy costs for detainee operations security: $46.5 million
Money paid to Naval Base Guantanamo: $67.4 million
Military Commissions complex, including security, translation, flights from DC: $121.8 million
Review boards for Guantanamo detainees not cleared for release: $15.1 million
Guantanamo Prison Compared to U.S. Federal Prison

Annual cost per detainee at Guantanamo: More than $10 million
Annual cost per prisoner at federal Supermax prison (Florence, CO): $78,000
Annual cost per prisoner at federal maximum security prison: $34,046
Annual cost savings of moving detainees to U.S. prison according to Defense Department plan to close Guantanamo: $65-85 million
https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/cost-guantanamo

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