Guantanamo Prison Case Study

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Both of the text Obama again pledged to close Guantanamo Prison and Denied, Detained, Deported deal with a lot of similar and different problems.The first way they are different is that Guantanamo held less as it states in the text, “Held about 680” but in Detained it states, “120,000 japanese americans were imprisoned”. These are different because the amounts that were held were completely different. In Denied they were packed like sardines and at Guantanamo they had space. Another difference is the quality of housing in Guantanamo it statethey were housed in decent living conditions, but as it states in Detained “some peoples “most detainees are in air-conditioned buildings” were literally housed in animal stalls” they were them live like

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