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Gitmo Detainees to Get Culture Classes and Movie Nights

By Jeralyn

Changes are coming to Guantanamo and closure isn't one of them yet. The detainees will be provided culture classes for intellectual stimulation, movie nights and more.

Prison camp staff will soon start offering art and geology classes to long-held war-on-terrorism detainees....Plans include hand-held Game Boy-like electronic games to circulate through the cells, newspapers from Cairo, more ''movie nights'' featuring videotaped sports and expanded lessons in English as a second language.

....''We want to keep their brains stimulated. We're not here to give degrees,'' says Zak, an Arab American who serves as the prison camps' cultural advisor, a secular job. ``Once they are engaged and busy, they leave the guards alone.''

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 23, 2008 (boomark / email).