1 Editor’s note: The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 provided a short-lived substitute for habeas corpus review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which the Supreme Court found inadequate in its 2008 ruling in Boumediene v. Bush.
2 Editor’s note: Habeas corpus proceedings challenged the indefinite detention of prisoners without charge in federal court; military commissions involved the prosecution of a limited number of prisoners for war crimes before military tribunals.
3 Editor’s note: The plight of the Uyghurs is discussed in Sabin Willett’s “Twelve Years After,” chapter 1 in this volume.
4 Editor’s note: In 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that Bagram detainees had no right to habeas corpus and could not challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
5 Editor’s note: The plight of the Uyghurs is discussed in Sabin Willett’s “Twelve Years After,” chapter 1 in this volume.
6 Editor’s note: This transfer is discussed in Frank Goldsmith’s “The ‘Taliban Five’ and the Prisoner Exchange,” chapter 10 in this volume.
7 Editor’s note: This incident is also discussed in J. Wells Dixon’s “President Obama’s Failure to Transfer Detainees from Guantánamo,” chapter 3 in this volume.
8 Editor’s note: Hamdan’s case is discussed in Joseph McMillan’s “Hamdan: The Legal Challenge to Military Comissions,” chapter 11 in this volume.
9 Editor’s note: Detentions at Guantánamo cost approximately $2.8 million per prisoner per year.
10 Editor’s note: One Guantánamo detainee, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, was transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where he was convicted for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and sentenced to life imprisonment. No other Guantánamo detainee has been prosecuted in federal court.
11 Editor’s note: Salim Hamdan’s case is discussed in depth in Joseph McMillan’s “Hamdan: The Legal Challenge to Military Commissions,” chapter 11 in this volume.
12 Editor’s note: Tariq Ba Odah’s story is described in detail in Omar Farah’s “Nourishing Resistance: Tariq Ba Odah’s Eight-Year Hunger Strike at Guantánamo Bay,” chapter 9 in this volume.
13 Editor’s note: Djamel Ameziane’s story is recounted in J. Well Dixon’s “President Obama’s Failure to Transfer Detainees from Guantánamo,” chapter 3 in this volume.