US wants to revamp Afghan prisons

The Pentagon wants to improve the prison system in Afghanistan, where detainees suffer all sorts of abuses. The US has committed abuses on detainees there since 2001.
In Bagram prison, harsh interrogation methods and sleep deprivation were used routinely in its early years, and two Afghan detainees died there in 2002 after being beaten by American soldiers and hung by their arms from the ceiling of isolation cells.
Bagram also became a holding site for terrorism suspects captured outside Afghanistan and Iraq.

The US is now building a new prison to upgrade Bagram. So when Obama says he will close Guantanamo, well whatever happens there, it will be cancelled out by building a new prison in Bagram.

Military personnel who know Bagram and the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, describe the Afghan site as tougher and more spartan. The prisoners have fewer privileges and virtually no access to lawyers or the judicial process. Many are still held communally in big cages.