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Pentagon Plans Massive Prison in Afghanistan

By Jonathan Simor

In one more sign that the war on terror is replicating the war on crime, the Pentagon announced plans last week to build a massive new prisons structure to hold detainees from the war against the taliban. See the Eric Schmidt and Tim Golden's reporting in last Sunday's NYT.The Pentagon is planning to use $60 million in emergency construction funds this fiscal year to build a complex of 6 to 10 semi-permanent structures resembling Quonset huts, each the size of a football field, a Defense Department official said. The structures will have more natural light, and each will have its own recreation area. There will be a half-dozen other buildings for administration, medical care and other purposes, the official said.The plans mark a change in the Pentagon's thinking on the future of the Afghanistan conflict...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).