Although "U.S.-Run Detention Centers Have Vastly Improved Since the Abu Ghraib Scandal, No System Has Been Developed to Determine Who Is Guilty."

"Most of the people they detain are innocent," said Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.

"Over the past year, senior U.S. military officers have sought to transform a system that had become a symbol of American abuses in Iraq into one that is more consistent with the principles of a counterinsurgency strategy designed to win support of the population. The process has improved prisoner conditions since the abuses committed by U.S. soldiers in Abu Ghraib but has not created a system to determine the guilt or innocence of thousands of Iraqi detainees."

"Over the past year" they've started changing things. It seems to me these people in the slam, which in the past year may have become more tolerable, the prisoners have to prove a negative in order to get out.

And the Pope couldn't speak directly to them because it would have violated the Geneva Conventions.

Arf