Cost To House A Captive At Guantanamo Bay Is $800,000 -- McClatchy News
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Guards get combat pay, just like troops in Afghanistan, without the risk of being blown up. Some commanders get to bring their families to this war-on-terror deployment. And each captive gets $38.45 worth of food a day.
The Pentagon detention center that started out in January 2002 as a collection of crude open-air cells guarded by Marines in a muddy tent city is today arguably the most expensive prison on Earth, costing taxpayers $800,000 annually for each of the 171 captives by Obama administration reckoning.
That's more than 30 times the cost of keeping a captive on U.S. soil.
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My Comment: Will it be cheaper to house these inmates on U.S. soil .... hmmm .... I doubt it. In fact .... it will probably be more expensive when one ponders what will be all the legal actions and lawyer fees if these detainees should then fall under U.S. law.
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