April 24, 2024

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| 11/25/2015

" Stuff’s just not getting replaced."

-- Attorney George Clarke

Guantánamo prison, with 107 detainees and defense attorneys purchasing basic supplies for long-held captives, is lining up a supplier for up to $1 million in socks, shoes, orange jumpsuits and other basic prisoner provisions through the year 2022.

In early October, a dozen lawyers for some of the detainees, separately, described their clients as showing up at legal meetings looking so disheveled that they had been purchasing them basic supplies from shoes to T-shirts and socks at the base commissary — something the Army guard force allowed.

Read more at the Miami Herald.

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