[4] It houses prisoners from all branches of the US Armed Services and conducts the Navy's Violent Offender Treatment Program.

The brig recently housed several enemy combatants, including Yasser Hamdi, José Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.

[6][7] The memos indicate that officers were concerned that the isolation and lack of stimuli were driving Hamdi, Padilla and Al-Marri insane.

Giambastiani to Charles Stimson Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, requesting that Hamdi, Padilla and al Marri be transferred to Guantanamo.

They wrote that when the DoD's response was finally received, "A Pentagon official apologized but gave no explanation for the long delay."