Rosenberg, Carol - short clip - 10-YearEvolutionofDetention
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| - | You know, when we first went to camp six | 0:00 |
| which is a 220 cell | 0:02 | |
| or 220 prisoner prison camp, | 0:05 | |
| a prison building, a penitentiary building | 0:09 | |
| built in cell blocks based on an American prison structure. | 0:12 | |
| It was after the suicides. | 0:17 | |
| and they were moved into this building | 0:19 | |
| and they were in single cell occupancy. | 0:21 | |
| You will have people in this project who will say | 0:24 | |
| it was solitary confinement. | 0:25 | |
| The military would tell you | 0:27 | |
| there wasn't solitary confinement | 0:28 | |
| because they had human contact. | 0:29 | |
| And they were in these cells | 0:31 | |
| 22 hours a day, 24 hours a day. | 0:35 | |
| Not really, but 22 hours a day or longer. | 0:37 | |
| They ate. | 0:41 | |
| They prayed. | 0:42 | |
| They were in these boxes all the time and you'd go on tour | 0:43 | |
| and you'd see them in these boxes, pacing back and forth | 0:46 | |
| back and forth, back and forth through the windows. | 0:48 | |
| And, and you could see what the lawyers | 0:50 | |
| described as a real austere. | 0:53 | |
| Emotionally, physically difficult structure of detention. | 0:58 | |
| Now you go to that camp, the doors are open, | 1:04 | |
| that prison building, the doors are open | 1:06 | |
| and the detainees have the run of that block. | 1:08 | |
| They can move around up and down the stairs, | 1:14 | |
| and within this area, where they can come | 1:16 | |
| and go from their cells, they can go take a shower. | 1:18 | |
| They aren't shackled as they were during the | 1:20 | |
| previous period. | 1:23 | |
| And they were taking the showers | 1:23 | |
| And the guards are in the cages. | 1:25 | |
| They have built chain link fences, | 1:28 | |
| chain link fence cages inside the cell blocks | 1:31 | |
| near the exit, where they have | 1:35 | |
| maybe three feet of space in front of them. | 1:37 | |
| And they're in these, like I said, | 1:42 | |
| these little chain link fence enclosures | 1:44 | |
| where the detainee can come up | 1:45 | |
| and make a request or talk to them, or pass their laundry | 1:47 | |
| or ask for a bottle of water or something. | 1:50 | |
| And you see the guards pacing back | 1:52 | |
| and forth in these very confined areas | 1:54 | |
| so that their feet don't fall asleep. | 1:56 | |
| So that they stay alert because their job | 1:58 | |
| is to keep an eye on the detainees. | 2:00 | |
| And it's 10 years later. | 2:03 | |
| And what you've seen is this is an experiment | 2:05 | |
| in which they're continuing to tinker, | 2:09 | |
| but having watched the evolution of it, | 2:11 | |
| it is striking how, | 2:14 | |
| I'm not saying it'll be like this tomorrow. | 2:15 | |
| I'm not saying it's been like this forever. | 2:18 | |
| But at this moment about 70-80% of the detainees | 2:20 | |
| are in more of a POW style eat together, pray together, | 2:24 | |
| have a little mini library together setting | 2:28 | |
| then they've had at the beginning. | 2:31 |
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