Naval Vessels Doubling as Prisons for Terrorists

Reprieve, a humans rights group, claims the US is using up to 17 naval vessels as detention centers for terrorists.Reprieve believes it's because the US wants to keep the prisoners out of prying eyes. The Navy denies these claims, the ships were used to transport the terrorists. Fox News

Personally, I think it's not a bad idea. I would've opened a prison up in the arctic instead of Cuba. Make the bastards freeze.

mong the alleged 'prison ships' were the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu and an additional 15 vessels suspected of having operated around U.S. and UK military officials in the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve's legal director, said "They choose ships to try to keep their misconduct as far as possible from the prying eyes of the media and lawyers."

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"By its own admission, the U.S. government is currently detaining at least 26,000 people without trial in secret prisons, and information suggests up to 80,000 have been 'through the system' since 2001," Smith told The Guardian.

Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a U.S. Navy spokesman, denied the presence of secret prisons on American ships and told the Guardian it was a matter of record that some ships were used to transport suspects ' for a few days' as part of dentention process.