thumb|Undated U.S. military image shows cell and shower Camp Echo

thumb|Undated U.S. military image shows a meeting room in Camp Echo

thumb|Undated U.S. military image shows exercise yard at Camp Echo

Camp Echo is one of seven Guantanamo Bay detention camps associated with Camp Delta, the prisoners' camp, at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, run by the United States military. The maximum-security facility is used to hold detainees in solitary confinement, as well as for interrogations by the military.

Housed here are also detainees scheduled for Military Commissions, and those considered "high value detainees" by the Defense Department. In addition, detainees are brought here for private consultation with their attorneys.

As of May 2011, most of the detainees at Camp Echo were so-called "detainees of interest." That month, one of them, Inayatullah (also known as Haji Naseem, ISN 10028) was found dead in the small recreation yard outside his cell at approximately 3:50 am. According to Army investigators, Naseem was allowed to go back and forth to the recreation yard without having the door to his cell locked. In the middle of the night, guards found Naseem hanging from a pole in the fence of the recreation yard, in a noose improvised from one of his bedsheets. Guards were on record as complaining to their superiors about "special privileges" allotted the prisoners at Camp Echo. Naseem was perhaps special because of his psychiatric history and previous suicide attempts, or possibly was special ("of interest") because he was, at least some of the time, cooperating with interrogators.

  • "Camp Echo" profile, Global Security