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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Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1216
E-mail discusses the compilation of a list of all detainees at Camp Bucca separated by offense. There are twenty-three (23) pages of detainee names sequentially listed by prisoner number, but all names redacted. ACLU RDI 1217 contains the ...
Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1217
List of detainees in Iraq to be reviewed. All names redacted. This document is the attachment to ACLU RDI 1216.
Aug. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1218
Coalition Provisional Authority Ministry of Justice list of Iraqi Prisoners being released. All names redacted. The email mentions that eighty-four (84) prisoners at Camp Bucca were authorized for release. It also mentions the Rusafa Facility. ...
Aug. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1219
Coalition Provisional Authority Ministry of Justice list of Iraqi Prisoners being released. The release policy is clarified in this email. Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper and Abu Ghraib prison are all mentioned. All names redacted. The email also ...
May 16, 2005
Email
Janis Leigh Karpinski
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1220
Basic information about detention procedures in Iraq. Includes a list of detention centers, counts of detainees currently held, and manuals that proscribe detainee treatment.
| ACLU-RDI 1221
May 13, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4734
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
May 13, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 09, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4716
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
May 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4720
State Department fax from Debra Long the DOS UN & Legal Programme Officer to Amb. Moley forwarding a letter from the Association Against Torture to President Bush.
May 09, 2005
Letter
Debra Long
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley, George W. Bush, Debra Long
May 09, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4723
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
May 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld