Prisons

Guantanamo has become a symbolic issue, an icon of the injustice of the system of detention which America has put in place which includes the abuses of Abu Graib and the use of torture and "harsh interrogation" by the the CIA. But Guantanamo has in fact been emptying out while detention facilities that are out of the public eye grow.

The New York Times reports that the prison faciilty in Bagram, Afganastan now overflows with 630 prisoneers. In 2002 two prisoners died there after mistreatment and conditions in the prison have been said to improve since then. Nevertheless, currently a part of the prison, containing isolation facilities, is sealed off from the rest. In these facilities, the Red Cross said, "The prisoners were...sometimes subjected to cruel treatment in violation of the Geneva Conventions..."