User:Geo Swan/Steve Gabavics

Steve Gabavics is an officer in the United States Army. In 2016 he replaced Colonel John Bogdan as commander of the Guantanamo concentration camps Joint Detention Group, making him the warden of the controversial camp.

Gabavics reinstated the practice of assigning female guards to escort suspects to their Guantanamo military commissions. The practice was controversial because guards are called upon to insert their fingers up the suspects' anal tract, nominally to ensure they aren't smuggling contraband.

In 2016 Gabavics described how a remedial program had exposed how some of the prisoners' artistic talent.

In February, 2018, Gabavics described the captives' reaction to watching President Donald Trump give his 2018 State of the Union address to Congress. Gabavics has defended plans to prepare Guantanamo for decades of detaining individuals who have never faced criminal charges.

Gabavics's last day in command of the Guantanamo Guard Force was June 26, 2018. He was replaced by Colonel Steven G. Yamashita.