Guantanamo Bay 25 years after 9/11: ‘We’re running a geriatric prison at this point’

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The most infamous detention facility on the globe is still open, now 25 years after the event that precipitated its necessity, with no end in sight until the remaining prisoners die, or by an act of a future Congress and president.

Approximately 780 men have been or are detained at Guantanamo Bay during the nearly 25 years it has been open, and only 15 remain, almost a quarter century after its creation. All 15 of them have been detained at Guantanamo Bay since at least 2008, three of whom arrived in 2002, the year it opened.

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