It was constructed to hold the fourteen "high-value detainees"[3] who had been held by the CIA, and were transferred to military custody on 6 September 2006.
[4][5] Some of the detainees, who faced charges before the Guantanamo military commissions, had attorneys who were initially told that they could not interview their clients.
[7] A 2013 budget request from the United States Southern Command for new prison construction at the base was presumed by reports to be for the replacement of Camp 7, though specifics of existing facilities were not discussed.
[8] According to an article by Carol Rosenberg, published in The New York Times, on 17 September 2019, Camp Seven had at least two recreation yards.
[9] At a preliminary hearing held that day prosecutors read a transcript of a conversation Ammar al Baluchi had with another captive, conducted by yelling over the wall of his recreation yard to the nearby recreation yard of the other man.