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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Army Memo re: International Committee of the Red Cross Meeting with the Joint Detention Operations Group. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen, Nelson J. Cannon
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Detainee Refusal of Care at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
These emails are from an Army CID officer concerned about where to conduct an autopsy in the event a detainee dies in custody. The question was over transporting the body to the United States and what ramifications that might have. The email ...
Investigation into commands by officers to beat detainees. Sworn statements by soldiers and officers claim that such orders would have been made in jest, though some soldiers admit to having taken the orders seriously. Report does not make any ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Investigation into three (3) instances of abuse: one in which a looter were stripped of his clothing and released from custody; another where an Iraqi was accidently shot; and a third in which a detainee was repeatedly hit in the head with a ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Physical assault, General, Nudity
Army Order CORR-101: Guidance on Minimum Standards for Detainees in Brigade Holding Areas.
Army request for release of prisoner arrested and shot by mistake. States individual was transferred from military hospital as a detainee instead of being released. This is related to ACLU RDI 434; 435; 436; 437; & 4865.
Feb. 28, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Other
Army Field Manual No. 4-0: FM 4-0 (FM 100-10) Combat Service Support
Soldier Training Publication No. 21-24-SMCT: Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks - Skill Levels 1,2,3, and 4. Published August 31, 2003
Log Book for the 72nd Military Police Company at Abu Ghraib Prison, Aug. 2003