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Guantánamo: Black-Out Bay

We traveled to Guantánamo Bay and spoke to a former detainee and guard to find out what life's like at Gitmo.

Approximately 800 men have been held at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility since it was established in 2002. Today, fewer than 150 remain. Even though more than half of current detainees have been cleared for transfer from the base, and in spite of the executive order signed by President Barack Obama in 2009 ordering the closure of the prison within one year, there's no indication it will be shuttered anytime soon.

VICE News traveled to Guantánamo to find out what the hell is going on. After a tightly controlled yet bizarre tour of the facility, we sought out a former detainee in Sarajevo and a former guard in Phoenix to get their unfiltered impressions of what life is like at Gitmo.