Guantanamo
“Within Guantanamo’s economy of control, access to – or denial of – such titbits of comfort gained extraordinary importance. Clark tells of one detainee who for years reportedly received no correspondence at all; when he was finally passed a letter by the authorities the entire document had been redacted. ‘The levels of control in Guantanamo were total because the experience of incarceration was part of the whole interrogation process,’ says Clark. ‘Your interrogator was in control of everything that you could or could not get: the thickness of your mattress, whether you had blankets or not, and when you did, or didn’t, receive your post.'”