Despite President Obama's vow to shut down Guantanamo Bay, the nation's most expensive prison is undergoing some costly new updates that would allow the facility to remain open for years. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports.
By NBC News staff and wire services
MIAMI - Naval investigators are looking into the death of a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay base where prisoners from the war on terrorism are held.
The prisoner, whose name and nationality were not disclosed pending notification of family, died on Saturday, according to the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the base in southeast Cuba. He was the ninth captive to die at the detention camp since it opened in 2002.
"While conducting routine checks, Joint Task Force-Guantanamo guards found the detainee unconscious and unresponsive. The guards immediately performed first aid and summoned medical personnel to the scene," the Southern Command said in a news release on Monday.
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Medics tried to revive him and took him to the base hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the release said. The cause of his death is undetermined.
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Navy Capt. Robert Durand told the Miami Herald that a pathology and mortuary team was brought to the base on Sunday to attend to the body. Durand also said a Muslim imam was summoned in order to give the man Islamic rites.
The detainee was in a maximum-security area of the detention camp, and at the time of his death, was "in a disciplinary status" after throwing a container of his bodily fluids on a guard, Durand told the Herald.
The dead man?s remains will be returned home after an autopsy, the Navy said.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the death, the Southern Command said.
The detention camp was set up to hold non-American captives suspected of involvement with al-Qaida, the Taliban or other Islamic militant groups after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Of the 779 men held there, 167 remain.
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Two of the earlier deaths were from natural causes and six were designated as suicides, most of them by hanging.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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