{"id":1426073,"date":"2022-04-08T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426073"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:30:19","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-prison-barge-heading-to-guantanamo-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-prison-barge-heading-to-guantanamo-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Prison Barge Heading To Guantanamo Bay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-prison-barge-heading-to-guantanamo-bay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=165465602581579&#038;set=a.110626994732107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid%3D165465602581579%26set%3Da.110626994732107&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649437866898000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0ALNcctnRpbtqLqiZ-v99h\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show one of two prison barges heading towards Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the image does show a U.S. prison barge, there is no evidence it is departing for Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image shows what appears to be a large, building-like ship sitting close to shore. \u201cThis is 1 of 2 huge US prison barges on their way to Gitmo,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption.\u00a0Gitmo is an informal name for the U.S.-military-operated Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/gitmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dictionary.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"a8nywdso j7796vcc rz4wbd8a l29c1vbm\">\n<p>The Facebook post\u2019s claim is misleading. While the image does show a U.S. prison barge, there is no evidence it is en route to Guantanamo Bay. A reverse image search revealed the photo appears in a 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/vernon-c-bain-prison-barge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gCaptain<\/a> article that explains the ship is the \u201cVernon C. Bain Center (VCBC),\u201d a U.S. prison barge based in New York City. An image of the barge can also be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cobanyc.org\/vernon-c-bain-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Correction Officers\u2019 Benevolent Association<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA five-story jail barge built in New Orleans to DOC specifications, the facility houses medium to maximum security inmates in 1o dormitories and 100 cells,\u201d explains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cobanyc.org\/vernon-c-bain-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Correction Officers\u2019 Benevolent Association<\/a> website. \u201cOpened in the Fall of 1992, it is named for a well-liked warden who died in a car accident. It serves as the Bronx detention facility for intake processing.\u201d Check Your Fact no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Vernon+C.+Bain+Center+Guantanamo+Bay&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;ei=24NQYqqzD9qgptQPwLWWmAc&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjqjOH_kIX3AhVakIkEHcCaBXMQ4dUDCA4&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=Vernon+C.+Bain+Center+Guantanamo+Bay&#038;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBAgAEEcyBAgAEEcyBAgAEEcyBAgAEEcyBAgAEEcyBAgAEEcyBAgAEEcyBAgAEEc6BwgAEEcQsAM6CggAEEcQsAMQyQNKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQIVghYMwCaAFwAngAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&#038;sclient=gws-wiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> to suggest the barge is headed for Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has reportedly been \u201claying the groundwork\u201d to transfer more detainees out of Guantanamo Bay, if not shut it down completely, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2022-02-19\/explainer-why-half-of-guantanamos-prisoners-could-get-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/03\/fact-check-hunter-biden-arrested-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Hunter Biden Arrested By The Military?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are only 37 detainees currently housed at Guantanamo Bay, according to a database maintained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html#transferred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. No one has been transferred to the detention center since 2008, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook claims to show one of two prison barges heading towards Guantanamo Bay.Verdict: Misleading While the image does show a U.S. prison barge, there is no evidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}