{"id":8731,"date":"2013-05-04T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8731"},"modified":"2013-05-04T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T04:50:08","slug":"the-economics-of-guantanamo-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-guantanamo-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Guantanamo Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050413_0326_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Alexander looked at the numbers behind Guantanamo Bay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The prison costs $150 million a year to operate \u2013 or $900,000 per prisoner.<\/li>\n<li>That means that every prisoner at Guantanamo costs 30 times more than the $30,000 that the average American prisoner costs.<\/li>\n<li>The high cost is due in part to the prison&#8217;s remote location. Everything has to be flown in including judges and the media during trials.<\/li>\n<li>Until recently administrators didn&#8217;t even reveal how much the prison cost. One expert suggests that in eleven years of operation the prison has cost up to $2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Unless the prison is closed soon it will get a whole lot more expensive. Urgent investments of $170 million are needed to upgrade the living facilities of American troops overseeing the prisoners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the political context of Guantanamo, what the money could be used for, why neither of the political parties are in favour of it, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/05\/03\/us-usa-guantanamo-costs-idUSBRE94211N20130503?feedType=RSS\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/05\/03\/us-usa-guantanamo-costs-idUSBRE94211N20130503?feedType=RSS\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Alexander looked at the numbers behind Guantanamo Bay: The prison costs $150 million a year to operate \u2013 or $900,000 per prisoner. That means that every prisoner at Guantanamo costs 30 times more than the $30,000 that the average American prisoner costs. The high cost is due in part to the prison&#8217;s remote location. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050413_0326_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8739,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions\/8739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}