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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Sept. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 951
Army Memo from Major General Odierno to Ironhorse Commanders, Leaders and Soldiers re: Treatment of Detainees. The purpose of this memo is to provide guidance for the treatment of enemy prisoners of war (EPW) civilian internees (CI) and other ...
Apr. 06, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Sept. 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 952
Army Memo from Provost Marshall, Tikrit, Iraq re: Standard Operating Procedures for Detainee Collection. The purpose of this memorandum is to standardize the operations of the Task Force Detainee Collection Points and provide guidance for the ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 953
Army Collection Point-Holding Area Checklist
DOA | ACLU-RDI 954
This memo gives detailed description of Enemy Prisoners of War and Detainee categories, from Category A (High Level) to Category D (no information of intelligence value).
DOA | ACLU-RDI 955
Army Detainee Processing Checklist. Lists Packet Requirements, along with "New Guidance from Ironhorse" and instructions to "Think of detainee's packet like it is a court case?"
Sept. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 956
Army Memo from General Odierno re: Detainee Collection Point Access Control Guidance. Limits outside access to detainees by the International Committee of the Red Cross, legal representatives and certain members of the US/Coalition Forces
Apr. 06, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 957
Geneva Convention Treatment of Prisoners of War August 12, 1949.
Oct. 11, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 958
Army Memo from Provost Marshall re: Guidelines for the Interrogation of Prisoners. This memo lays out the prohibition on striking of prisoners by interrogators. Holds Military Police (MP) solely responsible for all actions and deems them ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 959
Army Memo on Processing Detainees
DOA | ACLU-RDI 960
Army Detainee Packet Checklist