Satellite TV will be extended to the medium and maximum security camps within a month, he said. Their conclusions echoed what the International Committee of the Red Cross has been saying for years - that prisoners in the one-man cells needed more opportunities for social interaction and mental stimulation.Įighty or so well-behaved captives who live in group dorms now have the chance to watch live satellite television, choosing from among three sports channels, al Jazeera’s English channel and another Middle Eastern channel, Hayhurst said. Obama, who has called Guantanamo a blot on America’s human rights record and an al Qaeda recruiting tool, sent a team of investigators to check out the detention camp in February.

Communist-ruled Cuba has long condemned the presence of the U.S. “Construction here is very difficult,” said Hayhurst, who functions as the deputy warden.Īll materials must be brought by barge to the sun-baked base and there is only a small pool of laborers available to do the work, he said. naval base in southeast Cuba.īut because of logistical challenges at the prison, some of the plans are just now being implemented as the clock ticks down toward President Barack Obama’s January deadline to shut down the detention operation. Plans were made as long as two years ago to add television and group recreation facilities, said Navy Commander Jeff Hayhurst, who led journalists on a tour on Sunday of the remote prison located on a U.S. The amusements are aimed at providing mental stimulation for the 240 remaining captives, whom human rights monitors and defense lawyers have said were being driven mad by years of isolation at the U.S. A guard wearing a protective face mask speaks with a detainee through a fence, as another paces inside the exercise yard, at the Camp 6 detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S.

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