“FOIA request #SC 15–102-S: The Detainee Library,” a collection of materials curated by Jordan Scott and Stephen Voyce, emerges from their engagements with the Freedom of Information Act, which since 1967 has given the public a method of requesting access to records from any US federal agency, including records held by the US Department of Defense relating to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay. Scott and Voyce used FOIA to petition for access to two archives: the catalog of materials held in the detainees’ library at Guantánamo Bay, and the records related to artworks produced by Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This Jacket2 feature includes the six hundred unclassified pages that lists books and films in English, Arabic, Bahasa, French, and Urdu, as well as approximately 228 paintings and drawings by inmates included in the Detainee Art Gallery, in addition to correspondence relating to the FOIA request and a preface collaboratively written by Scott and Voyce.
The detainee library
Edited byJordan Scott Stephen Voyce