and a standard detention location for persons facing long sentences (before the pretrial detention facility at Quantico was closed)
... Every prisoner spends the first two weeks in Special Quarters 1 ... Special Quarters 1 is not used for punishment. After all, there is a TV room with videos where prisoners are allowed several hours a week, cafeteria food, offerings from a vault-sized library that range from Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" to Low Rider magazine to a variety of self-help publications. Punishment is next door in Special Quarters 2, a grim corridor of cinder block and stainless steel cells with the decor of a prison movie: Low light. Two barred doors on each cell. A toilet and a bunk. A 2,100-calorie daily diet of bread and water (for no more than 15 days) ...
Model of Marine punishment Discipline: For Quantico brig prisoners who may never wear a uniform again, the irony of their prison is the military regimen they live under.
July 22, 1997
Scott Wilson,SUN STAFF
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-07-22/news/1997203052_1_prisoners-brig-cells
... Marine Corps Brig, Quantico .... is used primarily as a place to temporarily harbor inmates awaiting transfer to longer term facilities, such as the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas .... Pretrial Confinement Facility at MCB Quantico was permanently closed on 31 December 2011 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Brig,_Quantico
... counsel acknowledged that he periodically inquired into the appellant’s custody classification during his pretrial confinement and was told by brig personnel that the appellant “was being held in Special Quarters 1 solely because he was facing more than 5 years confinement” ...
UNITED STATES v. John JOURDEN
http://www.jag.navy.mil/courts/documents/archive/2006/JOURDEN%20J.%20200500086%20UNPUB.pdf
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