In addition to the regular camps for detainees held in extrajudicial detention

Extrajudicial detention

Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...

 there is a Guantanamo psychiatric ward at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp complex in Cuba

Cuba

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The Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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 announced the opening of the psychiatric facility in March 2003.
Camp Commandant Geoffrey Miller

Geoffrey Miller (general)

Geoffrey D. Miller is a retired United States Army Major General who commanded the US detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Iraq. Detention facilities in Iraq under his command included Abu Ghraib prison, Camp Cropper and Camp Bucca. He is also famous for training soldiers in "improved...

 denied that the opening of the psychiatric facility was solely in response to detainees' suicide attempts

Guantanamo suicide attempts

On June 10, 2006 three prisoners held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps allegedly committed suicide. The United States Department of Defense stopped reporting Guantanamo suicide attempts in 2002....

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In April 2008 the Adam M. Robinson, the United States Navy

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's Surgeon General

Surgeon General of the United States Navy

The Surgeon General of the United States Navy is the senior-most medical corps officer in the United States Navy.- Establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery :...

, wrote that the "...core psychological health team one psychologist, one psychiatrist, five behavioral nurses and 14 psychiatric technicians.".

On June 7, 2010, the Washington Post reported, after obtaining the first official figures for capital costs of the Guantanamo camps to be made public, that the current building cost $2.9 million USD.

Detainees known to have held in the psychiatric facility

Detainees known to have held in the psychiatric facility

ISN	name	notes
78	Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi was a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Al Hanashi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 78....	Died in Guantanamo.
156	Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif	Won his habeas corpus Habeas corpus is a writ, or legal action, through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention. The remedy can be sought by the prisoner or by another person coming to his aid. Habeas corpus originated in the English legal system, but it is now available in many nations...  but still in Guantanamo.
290	Ahmed Belbacha	Cleared for repatriation.
669	Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair is a citizen of Saudi Arabia formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.On August 13, 2008 it was reported that Ahmed Zaid Zuhair had been on a hunger strike since June 2005....	Sent to the psychiatric facility after a meeting the camp's commandant.
743	Muhammad Saad Iqbal	Pakistani torture victim.