The Naval Consolidated Brig (NAVCONBRIG CHASN), is a medium security U.S.

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. The brig, Building #3107, is located in the south annex of

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in the city of

Hanahan, South Carolina Hanahan is a city in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 12,937 at the 2000 census. The 2010 census puts the population at 17,997. Portions of the Naval Weapons Station Charleston, including the Naval Consolidated ...

. The Brig was commissioned on November 30, 1989 and accepted its first prisoners in January 1990. It has 400 cells and can hold 288 inmates.History/Background, NAVCONBRIG CHASN
It houses prisoners from all branches of the US Armed Services and conducts the Navy's Violent Offender Treatment Program. It has been accredited by the

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eleven times: 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 & 2019, & 2022, receiving 100% compliance on each correctional standard. The brig recently housed several

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, including Yasser Hamdi, José Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri. Al-Marri was the last of the three to remain at the brig, being transferred to a civilian prison after he pleaded guilty in 2009. In October 2008 91 pages of memos drafted in 2002 by an officer at the brig became public. The memos indicate that officers were concerned that the isolation and lack of stimuli were driving Hamdi, Padilla and Al-Marri insane. On October 12, 2011, the Charleston Post and Courier reported on memos from E.P. Giambastiani to Charles Stimson Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, requesting that Hamdy, Padilla and al Marri be transferred to Guantanamo. The memos were from 2005. Giambastiani's request was declined. The memos were released to the Post and Courier in response to a

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request, filed eight years previously, for information about changes to the role of the prison triggered by al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001. They wrote that when the DoD's response was finally received, ''"A Pentagon official apologized but gave no explanation for the long delay."''

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U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig Charleston
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Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston
(Archive) Buildings and structures in Berkeley County, South Carolina Prisons in South Carolina United States Navy installations Military prisons in the United States 1989 establishments in South Carolina