Gitmo, the most expensive prison on earth

The Department of Defense  detention center started out in January 2002 as a collection of crude open-air pens guarded by Marines. Today it is the most expensive prison on earth.

It costs taxpayers $800,000 annually for each of the 171 captives according to the  Obama administration;

That’s more than 30 times the cost of keeping a captive on U.S. soil. In Florida it costs $20,000 per year to incarcerate prisoners. 

Obama had planned to close Gitmo but Republican politicians made a stink about safety while several federal prisons lay vacant. No prisoner has ever escaped from a US federal prison. 

source: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/no-austerity-gitmo

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