LAST MONTH a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay military base excused himself 
from a conversation with his lawyer and stepped into a cell, where he 
slashed his arm and hung himself. This desperate attempted suicide by a 
detainee held for four years without charge, trial or any clear prospect 
of 
release was not isolated. At least 131 Guantanamo inmates began a hunger 
strike on Aug. 8 to protest their indefinite confinement, and more than 
two 
dozen are being kept alive only by force-feeding. No wonder Defense 
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has denied permission to U.N. human rights 
investigators to meet with detainees at Guantanamo: Their accounts would 
surely add to the discredit the United States has earned for its lawless 
treatment of foreign prisoners.

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Perhaps we could allow conditional release of these people on a sort
of probation, as long as they agree to take a job managing the brothels
the UN runs in Africa?

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