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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Outlines standard operating procedure for detention facilities including treatment of detainees with dignity, use of minimum force necessary, prisoner searches, detainee transfer, staffing, patrol, shift changes, cleanliness of facility, meal ...
Email concerns the training of Military Police on detainee treatment and handling. It includes a discussion of the inclusion of Geneva Convention and focuses the requirement for humane treatment of all prisoners at all times as specified under ...
Attachments are copies of training materials for Operation Iraqi Freedom and certification documents at the conclusion of the training.

Emails between Army officers sharing the results of the Taguba Report concerning the events of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Email asks for recommendations on pre-deployment training. Attachment is a Training Support Package List that outlines training curriculum.
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Jerry R. Curry, Mark A. Barrett
Request guidance on units involved in detainee operations in Afghanistan
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Julian Burns
Julian H. Burns
Email between Army officers re: Pre-Deployment Training Requirements for the Iraqi Theater for Military Police Units
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
E-mail requests the recipient review and comment on the proposed attachment. Attachment not included.
Operation Iraqi Freedom Detainee Operations and Training Guidance. Attachments are copies of outlines on transparancies used in training.
Directs all post-Abu Ghraib inquiries about training to General Kelley.
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Julian Burns
James A Kelley
Julian H. Burns, James A Kelley
References attachment (not included) for responses for the Schlesinger Panel.
Email concerns updated Military police operations for handling detainees in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse.
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
David D. McKiernan
Email is a response to Sen. Barbara Milkulski's request for information. It states that FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] attachment, called Detainee ops, has as its purpose "to provide information on the pre-mobilization training of ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Barbara A. Mikulski
Training guidance for all soldiers who come in to contact with detainees. This traininig is is related to detainee operations. Attachment outlines training curriculum for all units performing internment & detainment operations under Operation ...
Guidance for Military Intelligence interrogation of detainees
States that all units at Fort Sill had no Article 15s imposed for detainee-related offenses from October 1, 2001 through July 9 2004.
Request from KnightRidder Newspapers for an interview with Gen. McNeill about the Commander's Inquiry he ordered into the deaths of two (2) detainees at the Bagram Collection Point in December 2002. One of the detainees was found in his cell, ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Dan K. McNeill
Dan K. McNeill
General, Physical assault
Request for an update on the training of personnel re: handling of detainees in the wake of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. Attachment outlines improvements in the handling of detainees. Training includes increasing observer evaluations and ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker
Forward of Los Angeles Times article "Officer Was at Crossroads of Abu Ghraib Command" by David Zucchino and Greg Miller, from August 1, 2004.
Forward of Slate article, "Goodbye, Geneva: It's Time to Rewrite the Laws of War" by Phillip Carter, from August 24, 2004.
States that Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick told the Associated Press that he will plead guilty to some offenses involving detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib.
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany. In response the answer is "Due to the sensitivity, ...

An email between members of the Staff Judge Advocate, forwarding a Washington Post article titled "Documents Helped Sow Abuse, Army Report Finds," from August 30, 2004.

Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany.
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany. In response the answer is "Due to the sensitivity, ...
A JAG Officer is requesting information from a fellow JAG Officer in preparation of a Capitol Hill briefing on JAG prosecutions of detainee abuse worldwide. A specific case involving the death by shooting of a detainee by a soldier at a detention ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
General, Physical assault

Email references a media query directed towards Lt. Gen. John R. Vines for information about the rationale for determing certain detainees as "Ghost detainees" in Afghanistan and Persons Under Control (PUC) and High Value Targets ...

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Dan K. McNeill
Dan K. McNeill, John Randolph Vines
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany.
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Operations before and after May 2004 60 Minutes Broadcast on Abu Ghraib. Army officer discusses training guidence in the wake of the 60 Minutes broadcase about the detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib ...
Email asks whether the experiences of soldiers in the NATO led KFOR operation in Kosovo and their handling of detainees, and any abuse of detainees, could be applied to the handling of detainees in Iraq and in dealing with training and ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker
Email from the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army directing all army units to report any Article 15 punishments related to detainee abuse either in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from October 2001 through July 2004 to the JAG.
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Abuse Response. General Burns asked for an electronic copy of this response to be send forward. Attachment includes a sequence of events on FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] training ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
David D. McKiernan
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Balkans Pre-Deployment Detention Training Requirements. Chain of e-mails confirms that upcoming Balkan units need to be trained on detention facility operations and questions where and how long the ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Donald Campbell
Forces Command Regulation (FORSCOM Reg.) 350-5: Joint Training Exercises. The purpose of this regulation is to prescribe policy, procedures, and responsibilities relative to planning for, participation in, and support of joint training exercises ...
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Operations Training. To ensure that all units with duty at detention centers are trained in accordance with CFLCC [Combined Force Land Component Command] intent expressed in your white paper. ...
Army Medical Health Record Form: Transfer Form. Blank.
Army Standard Operating Procedures for Detainees at Camp Duke, Iraq. Lists standard operating procedure, including: treatment of the detainees and guard procedures, camp rules, procedures for filing a complaint, health and welfare, incoming, ...
Army Order CORR-101: Guidance on Minimum Standards for Detainees in Brigade Holding Areas.
Army Medical Health Record Form: Chronological Record of Medical Care. Blank.
Army Medical Health Record Form: History and Physical Exam Form. Blank.
Army Medical Health Record Form: Routine Exam Form. Blank.
Army Field Manual No. 11-32: FM 11-32 Combat Net Radio Operations.
Dvision Medical Operations Center Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.
Army Field Manual No. 4-02.4: FM 4-02.4 (FM 8-10-4) Medical Platoon Leaders' Handbook; Tactics, Techinques, And Procedures
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 63 -386-30-MTP: Mission Training Plan supply Company, Aviation Support Battalion, Digitized Division
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 5-437-10-MTP: Engineer Platoon, Engineer Company, Engineer Combat Battalion, Corps
Mission Training Plan Headquarters, Division Support Command (DISCOM) Digitized Division.
Mission Training Plan for the Mobility Platoon, Engineer Company, Brigade Combat Team.
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 63-002-30-MTP: Mission Training Plan for Headquarters Company, Division Support Command, Heavy, Airborn, Air Assault, and Light Divisions