Guantánamo Bay as Nursing Home: Military Envisions Hospice Care as Terrorism Suspects Age
With no sign that the prison will close, the Pentagon has begun planning for detainees to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay.
By Carol Rosenberg
April 27, 2019
This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
GUANTÃNAMO BAY, Cuba — Nobody has a dementia diagnosis yet, but the first hip and knee replacements are on the horizon. So are wheelchair ramps, sleep apnea breathing masks, grab bars on cell walls and, perhaps, dialysis. Hospice care is on the agenda.
More than 17 years after choosing the American military base in Cuba as “the least worst place†to incarcerate prisoners from the battlefield in Afghanistan, after years of impassioned debates over the rights of the detainees and whether the prison could close, the Pentagon is now planning for terrorism suspects still held in the facility to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-aging-terrorism-suspects-medical-care.html