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U.S. Democracy Protection
Published on January 20, 2017
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
- 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
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
