Hopeless suicides, infinite detention, torture (by the definitions of lots of countries other than the one employing the guards), etc. Let's say N. Korea camps are "boiling." It wasn't that Gitmo is boiling like N. Korea, but we did see a nasty trend of turning up the heat on the stove rather than cooling things down or keeping things room temperature. The trend was nasty enough that as soon as a new POTUS got in office an executive order was signed within days—January 22 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantana... , even if we still haven't worked out the execution of that order for various political reasons.