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.
Guantanamo Bay Naval Station has been a U.S. military base for more than a century. During the 40 years leading to September 11, 2001, it was filled with asylum-seeking refugees from throughout the Caribbean.
After 9/11 Guantanamo turned its attention to prisoners of America's new War on Terror.
When it opened in January 2002, the DoD said Camp X-Ray would temporarily shelter "the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth."
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