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Here's What Guantanamo's Notorious Camp X-Ray Looks Like Today

Robert JohnsonJan 10, 2014, 21:41 IST

Robert Johnson for Business Insider

New camps housing Guantanamo detainees are state-of-the art facilities modeled after American medium-security prisons.

The buildings don't last long and are constantly being replaced, but the first camp, Camp X-Ray, is the one everyone thinks of when they imagine the abuse suffered by Guantanamo detainees.

Business Insider spent one very hot afternoon exploring the now-abandoned Camp X-Ray in 2013.

We knew it would be intense, but that doesn't really describe visiting the place where America's reputation was sullied forever. Even overgrown with grass on a beautiful island, it's impossible to see past the dark history of what happened here.