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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 2018
Detainee Transfer Form - Blank
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2022
Training Guidance For Units Performing Internment and Detainment Operations: re Operation Iraqi Freedom. General and specific instruction on handling and managing detainees and the duties of US soldiers when performing such duties.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2055
Army PowerPoint presentation on the flow of detanees once captured on the field of battle.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2060
This Army memo details how to view and detain civilians and other types of detainees found in the theater of operations. The memo stresses that the civilian is to be treated humanely and that deadly force is not authorized unless the soldier is ...
| ACLU-RDI 2062
Contents Redacted Under FOIA Exemption
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2077
This document is a package of documents related to the arrest and detention of an Iraqi for a shooting at a market in Taza, Iraq on August 3, 2003. The package includes a mug shot (redacted) and finger print card as well as sworn statements.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2079
Interviews with Army Captain and First Lieutenant concerning detainee operations including capture, transport, medical care and un-anticipated events and how they are dealt with.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2088
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes in the sheet that pages, 15853-15869, were referred to CID on March 1, 2006 for further review.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2093
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes it withheld photographs, bates pages 15877-15884, pursuant to FOIA exemptions.
CID | ACLU-RDI 2096
Document is a PowerPoint presentation from Office of Provost Marshall General discussing designations and responsibilities U.S. Army personnel.