Razor Wire at “Gitmo on the Platte” eliminated after protesters protest

The twenty “Holding pens”, Denver City officials planned to use to process, but not hold overnight, any one detained on the east side of the city, no longer will have razor wire on top to keep detainees from climbing out of the makeshift wire cages inside the old voting machine storage facility at 38th Ave and Steele Street which is almost 40 blocks from the convention location.

The facility will provide involuntary visitors with bathrooms, water, medical care, air conditioning, phones, free mug shots and fingerprints. According to the Denver Post, “Leaders of groups that plan to demonstrate during the convention have decried the use of the building, calling it “Gitmo on the Platte”. The South Platte rivers runs north through Denver just on the west side of downtown.

Each cell will contain twenty chairs, one per person at capacity.

No one expects more than a few arrests, but want to be prepared.