September 9, 2022 - The U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has generated intense debate for two decades, raising enduring questions about national security, human rights, and justice.

September 9, 2021 - President Joe Biden turned the page on one legacy of 9/11 when he ended the war in Afghanistan, but he has yet to do much about another: the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

February 15, 2022 - The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

June 15, 2022 - NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Wells Dixon, a lawyer representing Guantánamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan, who recently sued the Biden administration over his imprisonment.

[Last updated in May 2018]Well over a decade has passed since the first prisoner arrived in Guantánamo Bay, making it the longest-standing war prison in U.S. history. Almost 800 men have passed through Guantánamo’s cells. Today, 40 men remain. Fashioned as an “island outside the law” ...

Sixteen years have passed since the first prisoner arrived in Guantánamo Bay. Almost 800 men have passed through Guantánamo’s cells. Today, fewer than 100 men remain.

January 11, 2022 - 20 years after the establishment of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, approximately 780 inmates have been held at the facility.

October 25, 2018 - Factbox | The staff, statistics and more about the 40-captive prison with an 1,800-member mixed military and civilian staff, as of Oct. 25, 2018

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December 5, 2018 - The status, leaked prison profiles of the 40 detainees at Guantánamo

December 11, 2020 - The Yemeni man, who is in his mid-40s and known by several names, has been held for more than 18 years. Although cleared for release, the U.S. must still find a place for him to go.

August 18, 2022 - A federal judge agreed, writing in 1993 that the base had become “an HIV prison camp.” He ordered all the Haitian asylum-seekers released and the Guantanamo Bay detention center closed. The Haitians were admitted to the United States, but the unused facilities remained. And the base’s nebulous legal status – and therefore the question of whether the Constitution applies there – remained unresolved. 5. Dozens of people are still ...

April 21, 2023 - The U.S. transfer of a Guantanamo detainee to Algeria Thursday brought the facility's population down to 30. The Biden admin is weighing options to cut it more.

August 12, 2024 - Spanish: [ɡwanˈtanamo]) is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province. Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditional parts of the economy.

January 22, 2015 - President Obama promised to close the prison there on Jan. 22, 2009

March 3, 2019 - The reporter Carol Rosenberg has been covering Guantánamo Bay since before it became a "war on terror" prison camp — and she's still at it.

January 11, 2024 - He is one of 30 men still detained there, down from nearly 800 ever held. This trajectory is because Guantánamo, though not singular among prisons in its harsh treatment and arbitrary detention, was at least for a time very overt in its extremeness, and what could be seen more plainly than usual caused a reaction. There are public records and images of an earlier period that people ...

January 9, 2024 - NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Scott Roehm of the Center for Victims of Torture about how Guantánamo Bay still is operating despite calls for its closure.