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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This is an Article 15 proceeding against a Military Police soldier who punched a detainee about his body with his fist after the detainee was already shackled. The soldier also faced charges of dereliction of duty by failing to secure the ...
June 24, 2005
UCMJ (Article 15)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Physical assault
This is an Article 15 proceeding against a Military Police soldier verbally harassed a detainee and splashed a detainee in the face with Pine Oil. The proceeding found the allegations were substantiated and that the responses of the ...
June 24, 2005
UCMJ (Article 15)
Jay W. Hood
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
An Army Colonel emails a Chief Warrant Officer at Camp Bucca to establish a list of detainees that are eligible for release from custody. The email states "I have been checking for several days and many of these prisoners do not even have files ...
Email notifies recipient(s) of detainees who are cleared for release from Abu Ghraib, Camp Cropper, Rusafa, Tasferrat, and Camp Bucca [detainee names and numbers redacted]. Also, there is an attachment referenced in the email with detainee ...
Email lists the names/numbers of detainees cleared for release from Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, and Tasferrat [names/numbers redacted].
DOD lists of detainees who are cleared for release from Abu Ghraib, Al Salhiya, Camp Bucca and Tasferrat [detainee names/numbers redacted].
Email lists the names/numbers of detainees cleared for release from Camp Bucca [detainee names/numbers redacted].
Email lists the names/ numbers of detainees cleared for release from Abu Ghareb, Al Salhiya, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper and Tasferrat [detainee names/numbers redacted].
Email lists the names/ numbers of detainees cleared for release from Camp Bucca [detainee names/numbers redacted].
Email lists the names/numbers of detainees cleared for release from Camp Bucca [detainee names/numbers redacted].