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an unusual prison library

Posted on 20Oct04 by jessamyn

Guantanamo Bay Prison library reading preferences lean towards Harry Potter. The prison “librarian” and Air Force translator spent ten months in solitary confinement over spy charges including one charge of taking two souvenir photographs.

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