Detainees who have never been charged with anything……

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba, Dec. 10 - As the first detainees began moving last week into Guantnamo’s modern, new detention facility, Camp 6, the military guard commander stood beneath the high, concrete walls of the compound, looking out on a fenced-in athletic yard.

The cells at Camp 6, which began to house its first prisoners last week. Following a riot at Guantnamo in May, the facility has been retrofitted to make it more difficult to attack guards and commit suicide.
The yard, where the detainees were to have played soccer and other sports, had been part of a plan to ease the conditions under which more than 400 men are imprisoned here, nearly all of them without having been charged. But that plan has changed.

“At this point, I just don-t see using that,” the guard commander, Col. Wade F. Dennis, said.

After two years in which the military sought to manage terrorism suspects at Guantnamo with incentives for good behavior, steady improvements in their living conditions and even dialogue with prison leaders, the authorities here have clamped down decisively in recent months.

Security procedures have been tightened. Group activities have been scaled back. With the retrofitting of Camp 6 and the near-emptying of another showcase camp for compliant prisoners, military officials said about three-fourths of the detainees would eventually be held in maximum’security cells. That is a stark departure from earlier plans to hold a similar number in medium’security units.

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