Prison

Guantanamo Bay /  by Justin Merriman

The sun rises above empty guard towers, above part of camps that are no longer used at Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta on Aug. 13, 2016.

Detainees pray in a communal area of Camp 6, one of the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay on Aug. 13, 2016. Camp 6 holds the majority of the remaining 61 detainees at the detention facilities on the U.S. Naval base Guantanamo.

A couple of images from my visit to Guantanamo Bay detention camp in August of 2016.  You can read more about my visit in my stories "An inside look at Gitmo as detention facility faces uncertain future" and "GITMO procedures challenge military 'transparency.'"

Huang Xiang /  by Justin Merriman

Huang Xiang, one of the greatest poets of 20th-century China, stands in front of his North Side home on Wednesday afternoon. The City of Asylum in Pittsburgh is providing a safe haven for Xiang to create his poetry and art. In China, Xiang was severely persecuted and spent nearly two decades of his life in re-education through labor camps and communist-operated factories and prisons.