Leaving Guantanamo : How One Country Brought its Men Home from the Forever Prison

This book follows one country's Guantanamo detainees, from their lives beforehand, to the nightmarish captivity, to their release and the lives they have tried to remake. It is told by a human rights lawyer with decades of Guantanamo experience, who successfully represented the last two Kuwaiti 'forever prisoners.'

This multilayered work follows a group of Guantanamo detainees from a single Middle Eastern country, Kuwait, portraying their lives before their capture, to their experience at Guantanamo, to their ultimate release and the lives they have been challenged in remaking after returning home. It is an intimate look at real men held for years without charge and without hope. Eric L. Lewis has represented Guantanamo detainees for more than twenty years and he conducted the hearings that gained the release of the last two Kuwaiti 'forever prisoners.' As part of a committed team, he spent time with these men and their families, fighting to gain access to courts and navigating the politics and diplomacy of the Global War on Terror. As well as telling the story of his time with the Guantanamo detainees, Lewis also analyzes how Guantanamo has changed American law and culture, and how its legacy continues today.