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If you’ve listened to “Serial” before, you know that we’re interested in criminal justice stories. Our new season, which kicks off this week, is about Guantánamo — a justice system unlike any other. Guantánamo is the prison and court that the U.S. built after 9/11 to hold people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

We tried to figure out how to do a story about Guantánamo for almost a decade. We had so many questions: What was it really like on the ground for the thousands of people who had passed through? Why did the military personnel make the decisions they did? What were prisoners’ strategies for surviving there? What was everyone thinking at the time? What are they thinking now?

For the next several weeks, we’ll be releasing a new episode every Thursday. If you have a question while listening to the show, you can send it to us using the form below. We’ll try to answer it in our newsletter (which you can sign up for here).

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