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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Emails regarding prison conditions in Iraq. Discussion includes water supply/distribution system; sewer systems; dealing with garbage dumped outside of jail; and overcrowding in jails. Discussions on how to transfer control to jails over to ...
Detainee asked ot be examined because he as oral cancer as a result of chewing tobacco for a number of years.The medical records do not give any indication as to any personal information on the detainee.
Medical records of a detainee from Tier 1, Hard Site, Abu Ghraib Prison complaining about Sciatica and Testicular Pain. The medical records do not give any indication as to any personal information on the detainee.
Iraqi detainee at Abu Ghraib prison on a hunger strike was brought to the emergency room for treatment. He was re-hydrated via IV and returned to his cell.
Investigation into abuse during prisoner transfer. Finds that one handcuffed and blindfolded detainee was either allowed to fall or pushed from the transport vehicle, resulting in injury as he landed on his side on the ground; that two detainees ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File
General, Other, Physical assault
This memo records the detention of one detainee and then details the Standard Operating Procedure and guidelines for 2nd Brigade Holding Area including meal schedules, transport, detainee punishment (limited to isolation and blindfolding), ...

Investigation into the death of detainee Obeed Hethere Radad at Camp Packhorse, Tikrit, Iraq. A specialist from the 4th Fwd. Support. Bn., 4ID, shot and killed Mr. Radad, without first issuing warnings as required under the Rules of ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Jacqueline J. Scott, Kevin J. Palgutt, David A. England
Obeed Hethere Radad
Physical assault, Other
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
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