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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June 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 214
This is the report from the investigating Officer in to a riot and the shootings, non-lethal, of five (5) detainees at Camp Cropper, Iraq on June 9, 2003. On June 9, 2003 a Specialist entered the detainee portion of Camp Cropper to retrieve a ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement)
Paul Hill
Paul Hill, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, General
June 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 215
This Army memo is the report from the investigating Officer appointed to investigate the escape of two (2) detainees, and subsequent shooting death of one (1) of them from camp Cropper, Iraq on June 12, 2003. The scope of this investigation was ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6), Medical (Death Certificate)
Physical assault, General
June 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 216

This Army memo concerns the escape of a detainee who used a piece of cardboard from a water bottle box to push the triple strain concertina wire up and slide under the wire and escape from Abu Ghraib prison. The detainee did this while the ...

Oct. 19, 2004
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Janis Leigh Karpinski
ISN 8968
Physical assault, General
Nov. 05, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 220
This is a Special Incident Report by the 320th Military Police Battalion of the escape of two (2) male detainees from Abu Ghraib, Hard Prison Unit 3A, both were housed in Cell #144.
Oct. 19, 2004
Investigative File
ISN 9877, ISN 10739
May 07, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 221
This is a Special Incident Report by the 320th Military Police Battalion of the escape of a male detainee from Abu Ghraib, Northeast area of BCF.
Oct. 19, 2004
Investigative File
ISN 14239
Nov. 08, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 222
This is a Special Incident Report by the 320th Military Police Battalion of the escape of six (6) male detainees from the Baghdad Correctional Facility
Oct. 19, 2004
Investigative File
ISN 115089, ISN 151623, ISN 151624, ISN 116734, ISN 116735, ISN 116738
Dec. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 223
Report on the use of non-lethal means to disperse a melee of prisoners at Camp Ganci, Compound Number Two (2), Abu Ghraib prison.
Dec. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 224
Page 13 of 15 of a report on the use of non-lethal means to disperse a melee of prisoners at Camp Ganci, Compound Number Eight (8) in December 2003.
Dec. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 225
Report on the use of non-lethal means to disperse a melee of 30-40 prisoners fighting at Camp Ganci, Compound Number Three (3), Abu Ghraib prison.
Dec. 17, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 226
This is a Special Incident Report by the 320th Military Police Battalion of a report of an attack on a Military policeman at Camp Ganci, Abu Ghraib prison. The report states: During prisoner feeding, [one prisoner] became disriptive requiring MP ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Investigative File
Isolation