U.S. TO KEEP CONTROL OF PARWAN PRISON

"The United States will remain in control of Afghanistan’s highest-profile prison well beyond January 2012, missing a key milestone in the plan to transfer judicial and detention operations to Afghans... over the past three years, the number of detainees has tripled. Parwan now holds 2,600 inmates... the Taliban has successfully used the prison for propaganda to galvanize insurgents, drawing on reports of harsh interrogation methods... U.S. officials decided that the Afghan legal system is still too weak to permit the hand-over of the Parwan Detention Center, even after the United States spent millions attempting to improve the country’s judiciary... U.S. officials say that giving Afghans control over the fates of suspected insurgents would allow dangerous Taliban fighters to slip through the cracks of an undeveloped legal system..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-prison-transfer-delayed/2011/08/12/gIQApCGMBJ_story.html?hpid=z2