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 204
This list is of nineteen (19) documents, dated from 7/1/03 - 5/24/04. Includes policies/procedures, briefing and guidance, memos, and e-mails produced. It appears that this is part of a larger document production.
Oct. 17, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4762
Medical log book from the Hard Site at Abu Ghraib prison Medical Office listing the detainees and their ailments. Most information is redacted.
Sept. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1023

Record data of all detainees who were treated in U.S. Army medical treatment facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq between December, 2001 and September, 2004.

Nov. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1106
Lists cases and investigations in spreadsheet format. Cases are listed by: Case ID, agency investigating, type, unit/place, date of occurrence, date of report, report by, closed or open, status [redacted], note.
Nov. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1107
Lists cases and investigations in spreadsheet format. Cases listed by: Case ID, agency investigating, type, unit/place, date of occurrence, date of report, report by, closed or open, status, etc.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1108
Lists investigations in spreadsheet format. Cases listed by case ID, investigation by, date of incident, date reported, etc.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1133
Flow chart outlines the detention procedure and the appropriate chain of command.
OJAG | ACLU-RDI 1173
CID Report: List of CID Documents Maintained by the OTJAG. Lists of page numbers of evidence in investigations.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1186

PowerPoint presentation on the number of detainee abuse investigations, death investigations (natural/undetermined deaths, justifiable homicides, homicides) and other soldier misconduct investigations (assaults, sexual assaults, ...

May 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3369
This memo also includes a table and emails. The general synopsis of the memo is it provides the statement of an SA's observations while at Abu Graib Prison. In the memo, SA states that during his time at the "Abu Graib Prison his role was to only ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Raymond Mey, Monte C. Strait, Michael J. Folmar, Barbara Wells, Russell D. Robinson, Paula J. Wendell , Amy Jo Lyons, Randall D. Parsons, Steven C. McCraw, Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Thomas J. Harrington, M. Chris Briese