Ashton Eleazer

Feeder 2.1

September 24, 2015

TOPIC #1: I am studying the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay because I want

to find out if they are treated fairly in order to help my reader understand whether the

treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo is just.

1. Where did the idea for a prison in Guantanamo bay come from?

2. How is the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay different than other terrorist

prison facilities in other countries?

3. What would happen if Guantanamo Bay closed?

I think newspaper articles with interviews of former guards who know what is going on

inside Guantanamo Bay would be helpful along with the first hand account from

prisoners if possible.

Primary Source 1: “Ex-Guantanamo guard tells of violence against detainees.” A news

articles written by Jenifer Fenton from an interview with an ex-guard. This article will

answer question two on how prisoners are treated in this prison as in comparison with

another source.

Secondary Source 1: Pro/Con’s to Closing Guantanamo. Pro by Andrew C. McCarthy

and con by Earl Silbert. This was put together by Kenneth Jost. This will answer question

number three.
Secondary Source 2: “1st Guantanamo Bay Detainee Arrives In N.Y.” News transcript

featuring Jackie Northam and Steve Inskeep. This source will answer my first question

about when Guantanamo Bay began.

Secondary Source 3: “Guantánamo Bay detention camp” by Jeannette L. Nolen is from

a scholarly online source about the history of Guantanamo. This will help answer

questions one and two to provide a background.

Secondary Source 4: “Prisons and Terrorism Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in 15

Countries” is a report written by Peter R. Neumann. This report will answer question

number 2 by comparing terrorism facilities in other countries as well as here.

Secondary Source 5: “With Closing Of Guantanamo, What Happens Next?“ a news

article written by Jackie Northam will answer question 3 and explain what would happen

when it closes.

Secondary Source 6: “'A monstrous failure of justice'? Guantanamo Bay and national

security challenges to fundamental human rights” by Andrea Birdsall explains how

prisoners are treated to answer question 2.

Secondary Source 7: “The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay” written by

Thomas S. Hong. This article answers question 2 about how prisoners are treated at

Guantanamo.

1. This article is mostly analyzing the book “Terror Courts” which is about how

President Bush created military commissions after 9/11 in the expectation that

trials would be fair, but imposed quickly. Later it explains how these trials that

were meant to be fair ended up becoming corrupt and disrupting justice.

 2. This article would be useful because it is examing a book that explains how

alleged terrorist prisoners rights to a fair trial were corrupted and it will

connect back to my question about treatment of prisoners being injust.

Secondary Source 8: “American POWs compared with Guantanamo bay captive” by

Lucy Jones slighty answers question 2, but also connects my topics together if I wanted

to do that.

Secondary Source 9: “Inside Guantanamo” by Terri Judd answers question 1 about

where the idea came from and what it is like on the inside of the camp.

TOPIC #2: I am studying human rights as it relates to prisoners of war because I want to

find out if POW’s basic human rights are damaged during war in order to help my reader

understand whether they are fairly treated.

When were POW’s first recorded to be tortured instead of only captured during wartime?

1. What are the different treatments of POW throughout history?

2. How are prisoners in America treated in relation to prisoners in other countries?

3. How does treatment of prisoners affect them and their human rights?

I think government documents about the measurements taken with prisoners would be

useful as well as interviews with POW’s.

Primary Source 1: “A former POW on the impacts of torture on mind, body and soul of

a country” is a first hand article written by Philip Butler. His article will answer my last

question.

Primary Source 2: “American Prisoners of War” is published by the American Red

Cross and examines American’s personal experiences with being captives which answers

part of question two.

Secondary Source 1: “The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners of

War from the Revolution to the War on Terror” is written by Matthew McCullough and

answers question two.

1. This article is about how American’s have treated POW’s pretty fairly

throughout time. In fact in some cases the government treated them so well

that the American press blamed the government for pampering them.

2. I think this article will help my research on this topic because it shows a new

perspective other articles don’t really have about the American government

being fair toward prisoners. It will help me set up a spectrum if I wish to

choose this topic.

Secondary Source 2: “The Treatment and Interrogations of Prisoners of War and

Detainees” by David E. Graham analyzes the different views of how prisoners should be

treated and how they actually are treated which goes along with question three.

Secondary Source 3: “Andersonvilles of the North : The Myths and Realities of

Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners” written by James M. Gillispie

talks about POW during the civil war era which will examine question one.

Secondary Source 4: “Beyond the Wire: Allied POWs in the Second

World War, the POW ‘Myth’ and Future Realities” written by James Crossland explains

different realities and myths concerning POW’s and WWII which will answer question

one and two relatively.

Secondary Source 5: “Prisoner of War” written by the editors of Encycllopedia

Britannica is part of a scholarly book that explains the history of POW’s that will answer

question 1.
Secondary 6: “The Geneva Conventions 150 years later … still relevant?” by the ICRC

is an article that answers question 1 about the future involving POW.

Secondary 7: “History and Legal Status of Prisoners of War” was on the National Park

Services site and answers question 1 about how POW statuses have changed.

Secondary 8: “German POWs on the American Homefront” is a magazine article by

J.Malcolm Garcia that compares German POW to American ones which answers question

3.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/28/world/meast/guantanamo-guard/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105147971

http://www.clingendael.nl/sites/default/files/Prisons-and-terrorism-15-countries.pdf

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Guantanamo-Bay-detention-camp

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99781584

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