In light of the Trump Administration's directive in January 2025 to start imprisoning thousands of migrants at Guantanamo Bay, we are publishing an excerpt from the 2020 book Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison, which illustrates interviews with 10 people who have experience at the prison. 

This chapter from the 2020 book is an interview with Katie Taylor, who at the time worked for human rights group Reprieve providing support for former Guantanamo prisoners. Since 2002, roughly 780 men have been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay and the vast majority were never charged with a crime. As of February 2025, 15 people remain incarcerated at the prison and President Trump's directive calls for imprisoning up to 30,000 migrants at the facility. Even after people are released from Guantanamo, the painful impacts of their incarceration endure.