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13 April 2008

Gitmo Files and Photos:

http://cryptome.org/gitmo-files.htm

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/14/080414fa_fact_toobin

The biggest change to Guantánamo has been the completion of Camp 5, in 2005, and Camp 6, the following year. Most of the detainees now reside there. They are modern federal-prison structures, brick-for-brick copies of a pair of existing facilities, one in Terre Haute, Indiana, and the other in Lenawee, Michigan. The scenes inside, for better or worse, resemble those at most Supermax facilities. The prisoners spend about twenty-two hours a day inside climate-controlled, eight-foot-by-twelve-foot cells, with no televisions or radios, and generally leave only for showers or for recreation in small open-air cages.

Painted on the floor of all cells are arrows pointing toward Mecca, and through the cell doors the detainees can hear each other pray five times a day. Each tier of cells appoints a prayer leader who gets a sign—“Imam”—on his door. About two years ago, there were a hundred detainees on hunger strikes demanding an end to their terms, or at least a finite sentence; the number has declined to about ten, although one inmate has been refusing food for more than eight hundred days, and another for nine hundred days. (These prisoners are force-fed twice daily, via a tube through the nose.) Interview rooms for interrogations are outfitted with blue couches for the detainees. Camp 6 had been intended as a medium-security alternative to Camp 5, but after a series of near-riots by the detainees, in 2006, it, too, was converted to maximum-security status. The so-called “high value” defendants are held at Camp 7. This is a secret location at the base and is never shown to reporters.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/102770.html

Camp 7: Very little is known about this secret camp within the camps, whose existence was revealed Dec. 8, 2007, in declassified notes belonging to the only attorneys ever to meet so far with former CIA-held captives. The camp is not on the tours that the prison camps run each week for visiting media or other dignitaries, and the Pentagon has so far declined to provide information on the camp's costs or other details about its establishment. It is not run by the same senior military officer who runs the Joint Detention Group at Guantánamo, an Army colonel who holds the job on a rotational basis. A Military spokesman at Guantánamo says it is a Department of Defense facility officially declared off-limits to visitors by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and will not identify the name, rank or service of the officer in charge. Opened: Date unknown. Current detainee population: About 15.

More on Camp 7: http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/409334.html

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Architects of the Guantanamo Prison are not easily identified. Guantanamo Prison Camp 6 was designed by the architectural firm of Schenkel Schultz Architecture, which has offices in several US cities. While it lists several prisons on its website, Guantanamo Camp 6 is not among them. However, Fabcor, a prison equipment supplier, lists:

http://www.fabcor.com/jails/pdf/completedprojects.pdf

Guantanamo Prison Camp 6 Architect Eyeball

Schenkel Schultz Architecture CEO, Michael S. Gouloff: Source Gouloff  named entrepreneur of the year in 2001: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5341/is_200107/ai_n21474770 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5341/is_199807/ai_n21424732 SchenkelShultz is owned by six partners: Michael S. Gouloff, AIA, president; J. Thomas Chandler, AIA, executive vice president; David J. Sholl, AIA, vice president, Fort Wayne Group; Gregory W. Buckel, R.L.S., vice president, Site Engineering Croup and Development Division; Thomas G. Neff, AIA, vice president, Indianapolis Group; and Daniel Tarczynski, AIA, vice president, Florida Group.

Based on the aerial photo of Camp 5 plan, below, the slot-windowed elevations, Camp 5 looks more like the Terre Haute prison than Camp 6 which has no exterior windows. Schnkel Schultz may have designed both camps. Guantanamo Prison Camp 6 (left) and Camp 5 (right), 22 February 2008: http://cryptome.org/gitmo-080222/gitmo-080222.htm What appears to be a low structure at left of Camp 6 does not show in photo below. U.S. Army Col. Bruce Vargo, center, the joint detention group commander, gives Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen a tour of a detainee recreation area at Camp Six on Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Jan. 13, 2008. Mullen, who is on a five-day trip to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations, is visiting detention facilities and the new expeditionary legal complex where high value combatants will be tried. DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeel ey, U.S. Navy. (Released) Download Hi-Res Camp 6 (View at Arrow Above) Camp 5 (View at Arrow Above Left) As noted above the model for Camp 6 is the US prison at Terre Haute, Indiana, designed by Schenkel Schutz: http://www.schenkelshultz.com/projects.asp?type=justice&id=117&link=true US prison at Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute Correctional Facility, Indiana http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=terre+haute,in&ie=UTF8&ll=39.40762,-87.454648&spn=0.003477,0.007703&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr Lenawee County Jail, Michigan http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=41.886081~-84.007355&style=h&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1 Camp 6 was probably designed in the Schenkel Schultz Orlando, FL, office: http://www.tindallcorp.com/correction_pics/Ref.pdf

Camp 6, the newest facility being built for detainees at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is designed after a maximum-security penitentiary in the U.S. Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. Sara Wood, 5 April 2006. Source Camp 6, the newest facility being built for detainees at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is designed after a maximum-security penitentiary in the U.S. Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. Sara Wood, 5 April 2006. Source Following Photos and Captions by Associated Press In this Dec. 5, 2006 photo, reviewed by a U.S. Dept of Defense official, a U.S. trooper walks through a common area which officials say is not to be used by detainees which are to be transferred from the older Camp Delta detention center nearby to this brand new state of the art maximum security facility known as Camp 6, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. A group of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Thursday, Dec. 8, became the first to occupy this 37 million dollar prison designed to restrict contact among the prisoners and prevent attacks on guards. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) In this Dec. 5, 2006 photo, reviewed by a U.S. Dept of Defense official, two cells, which are among 178 total, await detainees soon to be transferred from the older Camp Delta detention center to this brand new state of the art maximum security facility known as Camp 6, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. A group of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Thursday, Dec. 8, became the first to occupy this 37 million dollar prison designed to restrict contact among the prisoners and prevent attacks on guards. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) In this photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, military personnel stand inside the brand new Camp 6 maximum security jail, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. In October the military is to open the 38 million dollar facility built by Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root, which officials say will help prevent alleged al-Qaida and Taliban detainees from organizing and mounting uprisings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) In this photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, military personnel walk inside the brand new Camp 6 maximum security jail, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. In October the military is to open the 38 million dollar high security jail which officials say will prevent alleged al-Qaida and Taliban detainees from organizing and mounting uprisings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) In this photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a U.S. Navy Seabee walks inside the brand new Camp 6 maximum security jail, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. In October the military is to open the 38 million dollar high security jail which officials say will prevent alleged al-Qaida and Taliban detainees from organizing and mounting uprisings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) In this photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a cell awaits inmates at the brand new Camp 6 maximum security jail, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. In October the military is to open the 38 million dollar high security jail which officials say will prevent alleged al-Qaida and Taliban detainees from organizing and mounting uprisings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)