"It's a chaotic detention system and they're still trying to come to grips with it."

In the last decade, the capacity of the detention system has more than doubled, to 8,400, and is expected to reach almost 10,000 next year.

Regardless of the outcome, the case amounts to another public relations bruise for the American detention system.

It took him two and a half months to find the four men in the Iraqi detention system.

The critical question now is what sort of detention system will replace it.

With the coming of a new headmaster began the problem of detention system again.

The authority is the country's largest juvenile detention system, with 11 institutions.

America's detention system is far below the basic minimum standards for treatment of prisoners under international law.

These are not isolated incidents, but part of a tightly linked global detention system with no accountability in law.

"The whole detention system is there to break you down further," one former detainee told interviewers in the report.