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Facility profile
Operator
Central Intelligence AgencyPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
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Death-row facility
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Practical info
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Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Gul Rahman1953–2002
Gul Rahman (Pashto: ګ٠رØ٠اÙ; died November 20, 2002) was an Afghan man, suspected by the United States of being a militant, who was a victim of torture.
- Khalid El-Masri1963 · political activist
Khaled El-Masri (also Khalid El-Masri and Khaled Masri, Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ËxaËlɪd elËmÉsˤɾi, -ËmÉsˤɾe], Arabic: خاÙد اÙ٠صرÙ; born 29 June 1963) is a German, Lebanese and French citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police in 2003, and handed over to the U.S.
- Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani1969–2024
- Ghairat Baheer1956 · physician
Ghairat Baheer is a citizen of Afghanistan who served as a Senator in the House of Elders of Afghanistan.
Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani1970Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani is a citizen of Pakistan who was extrajudicially detained by the United States military at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba from 2004 to 2023.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7405911)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Salt Pit. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/salt-pit
Chicago
"Salt Pit." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/salt-pit.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-salt-pit,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Salt Pit},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/salt-pit},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}