After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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On April 16, 2004, members of Marine Corps stopped and detained three (3) men who were transferred to the Division Interrogation Facility (DIF). On April 26, 2004 the DIF released the trio to the custody of Task Force 6-26. They were then ...
June 28, 2006
Investigative File
James N. Mattis
Physical assault, General, Sexual
Marine Corps inquiry in to possible abuse of a detainee on April 13, 2004 at the Al Mahmudiya Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Iraq. Members of the guard force at the Detention Facility were accused of shocking a detainee using a power cord by ...
June 28, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
James N. Mattis
James N. Mattis
Use of electricity
Marine Corps inquiry in to alleged detainee abuse based on statements related by medical personnel. The medical personnel claim the Marine being investigated stated that he injured his hand while punching a detainee. The inquiry found that it was ...
An inquiry in to the abuse of a detainee taken in to custody after a raid on a residence by the U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (2/2). The captured Iraqi alleged that he was verbally and physically abused during the course of ...
May 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation
During a raid, jointly conducted by U.S. Marine Corps personnel with the 24th MEU (SOC) and Iraqi National Guards (INGs), a weapons cache was found. It was alleged that ING personnel slapped the owner of the home during an interrogation and shot ...
May 15, 2006
Investigative File
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
U.S. Marine Corps investigation into death of Awayed Wanas Jabar. Jabar was taken in to custody on April 17, 2004. He sustained a head injury in an escape attempt. A doctor examined him and said he was “OK”. A guard witnessed Jabar take his ...
May 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
James N. Mattis
Walid Tawfiq Jabar
Stress positions, Other
On June 23, 2003 Marines detained four Iraqi men for looting. The men were searched, stripped of their clothes (except for their shoes and underwear), and then released. On June 28, 2003 fired upon and disabled a truck that attempted to speed ...
May 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Henry P. Osman
Henry P. Osman, William A. Navas, Jr
Physical assault, General, Nudity
USMC Investigation into incident of abuse where a superior officer ordered a subordinates to take a detainees’ money, strip them naked to their underwear and release them in their underwear. Some soldiers protested. Investigator recommends ...
May 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
John F. Kelly
Threat, Assault/death, Nudity
DOD Memo re: Confidentiality Policy for Interactions Between Health Care Providers and Enemy Persons Under U.S. Control at Guantanamo Bay.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Richard A. Huck
Response to attorneys for ACLU re: FOIA request. Attaches explanation of exemptions. Letter from Navy NCIS to Jennifer Ching of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, attorneys for the ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter ...
May 15, 2006
Letter, Judicial
Jason L. Jones
Jason L. Jones
Navy Criminal Investigative Service Officer asks about two brothers who were held in Iraq stating that when he saw them they looked "pretty shaken up (shivering from cold and laying on concrete all night). It appeared they had gone through a few ...
May 15, 2006
Email
General, Temperature, Physical assault, Environmental manipulation
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Behavior Science Consultation Team Joint Intelligence Group, Joint Task Force.
DOD Memo re: Policy on Health Care Delivery to Enemy Persons at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Michael R. Lehnert
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Medical Documentation and Reporting Procedures for Suspected Detainee Abuse
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Detention Medical Interaction with Intelligence Gathering Operations
Army Action Plan: Orientation for Detainee Acute Care Unit at the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Detention Hospital, Delta Clinic, Delta Block re: Multi-Dose Vials
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Medical Care at Camp 5 at the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Medication Dispensing the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Mental Health Services to Detainees at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Infection Control at the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Emergency Medical Treatment at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Mortuary Affairs at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Advance Directives for Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for High Blood Pressure Management at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Block Nurse at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Vaccinations at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Detainee Refusal of Care at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Hepatitus B Management at the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Hepatitis C Management at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Emergency Response Team at the Guantanamo Detainee Hospital.
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for In-Processing Medical Evaluation at the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Army Action Plan: Job Action Sheet Detention Hospital Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Blank form for manpower pool coordinator.
Army Action Plan: Medical Intervention for Helminthic Infections. Standard Operating Procedure.
Army Action Plan: Latent Tuberculosis Management. Standard Operating Procedure.
This memo is a report of a finding concerning a detainee's allegation that fellow detainees are beating and threatening to kill him has no substantiation, and that none of them considered him a spy. The report concluded that there was no evidence ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Jay W. Hood
Jay W. Hood
This is a report form used by the U.S. Army to log and detail alleagtions of abuse. This report pertains to an allegation by one detainee that 6-7 other detainees have beaten him and accuse him of being a spy. The details are almost completely ...
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 600. One detainee accused another of communicating threats of physical harm and lying to interrogators. Two detainees were involved in a physical altercation the next day. Medical ...
Detainee allegation of abuse at the hands of his fellow detainees. The detainee claimed that he had been beaten by fellow detainees and had had urine thrown on him. No evidence was found to substantiate the claim.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Jay W. Hood
Jay W. Hood
A Detainee at Guantanamo reported that his fellow detainees beat him and threw urine upon him. This memo is an acknowledgment of the receipt of that complaint. This is related to ACLU RDI 616.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation
Report of incident in which a detainee claimed that other detainees are beating and threatening to kill him for being a spy.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Threat, Assault/death
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 604. Detainees threw urine/water/toilet paper at each other. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.
Two detainees fought in the recreation yard. Neither detainee was seriously injured by the fight. Following the fight, the detainees were put in orange uniforms and restrained with three-piece suits. Both underwent mental monitoring due to ...
A detainee in the left recreation yard began arguing with a detainee int the right yard. One of the detainees spit on the other. Action taken in response was complete loss of comfort items. The report records that the decision about complete ...
Detainee attacked another detainee in the recreation yard, under the direction of a third detainee who was secured in a shower cell adjacent to the yard. During the attack, the victim was compliant and did not fight back. When the attacking ...
One detainee spit on another because they were placed in the recreation yard together. Actions take in response were loss of comfort items for five days and segregation for five days.
Detainee spit on another detainee. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 602. Detainees were involved in an argument and physical altercation that involved punching and throwing fruit. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of ...
Detainees threw water and feces at each other for over an hour. Actions taken in response were 10 days of complete segregation and 10 days of complete loss of comfort items.