Bagram Theater detention facility

The Parwan Detention Facility is Afghanistan's main military prison. It was formerly called the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. Situated next to the Bagram Airfield in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan, the prison was built by the United States during the early years of U.S. President Barack Obama. The Parwan Detention Facility, which houses foreign and local combatants (terrorists), is maintained by the Afghan National Army.

It was formerly known by the United States as the Bagram Collection Point. While initially intended as a temporary facility, it has been used longer and handled more detainees than the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. As of June 2011, the Parwan detention facility held 1,700 prisoners; there had been 600 prisoners under the Bush administration. None of the prisoners has received POW status.

The treatment of inmates at the facility has been under scrutiny since two Afghan detainees died in the 2002 Bagram torture and prisoner abuse case. Their deaths were classified as homicides and prisoner abuse charges were made against seven American soldiers. Concerns about lengthy detentions here have prompted comparisons to U.S. detention centers in Guantanamo Bay on Cuba and Abu Graib in Iraq. Part of the internment facility is called the Black jail.

During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Red Army built Bagram Airfield. The airfield included large hangars that fell into disrepair after the Soviets left.

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