Ratings2
Average rating4.5
This is a really compelling and powerful book about a really fucked-up place. It's wild to have it laid out like this, how blatantly awful it is to be holding all these people who have never been, and at this point likely never will be, charged with a crime?? The interviews–with US soldiers who've worked at the prison (who aren't allowed to call it a prison because their inmates haven't been charged with a crime or sentenced to prison time), the inmates, the lawyers and others desperately working to get people out... oof. But at the same time the lovely artwork (from a variety of artists) and the conversational tone (literally, since the dialogue is adapted from transcribed interviews) make this an engaging read (rather than just a long slog of cruelty which like...it easily could have been).