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Afghanistan: U.S. Military to Build 6-10 prisons each the size of football fields

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

January 7, 2008, NY Times Foiling U.S. Plan, Prison Expands in Afghanistan By TIM GOLDEN WASHINGTON ? As the Bush administration struggles for a way to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a similar effort to scale down a larger and more secretive American detention center in Afghanistan has been beset by political, legal and security problems, officials say. The American detention center, established at the Bagram military base as a temporary screening site after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, is now teeming with some 630 prisoners ? more than twice the 275 being held at Guantánamo. The administration has spent nearly three years and more than $30 million on a plan to transfer Afghan prisoners held by the United States to a refurbished high-security detention center run by the Afghan military outside Kabul...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).