The black jail was a U.S. military detention camp established in 2002 inside Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
Distinct from the main prison of the Bagram Internment Facility, the black jail was run by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and U.S. Special Operations Forces.
There were numerous allegations of abuse associated with the prison, including beatings, sleep deprivation and forcing inmates into stress positions.
[1] The facility consisted of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day.
[2] However, in August, the Obama administration restricted the time that detainees could be held at the secret jail, and another like it at Balad Air Base in Iraq, to two weeks.