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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Investigation into allegations that a detainee was abused while in custody of U.S. forces. Investigation established probable cause to believe the offense of Maltreatment of a Prisoner did not occur as reported. Conclusion: report of "cruelty and ...
July 15, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Face slap or insult slap, General, Physical assault
Army Detainee Types and Segregation Plan. States detainee types: Criminal Detainee (CD), Security Internee (SI), Detainee of Intelligent Interest (DII), Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW). Notes "Marking and Segregation Plan" to track detainees and ...
This report by a DAIG Team interviewed 24 individuals and conducted 4 sensing sessions consisting of 23 Soldiers. All Soldiers interviewed and sensed were given surveys to assess factors associated with combat stress. The inspection took place ...
Memo references five alleged detainee abuse cases from Iraq, states the cases were unreported, but were uncovered during a DAIG assessment. In one incident, the complainant, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, ...
July 15, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General
Memo informs the reader that the Office of the Inspector General learned of a video portraying images of soldiers engaged in offensive behavior. The video allegedly portrays soldiers with the 1st Battalion 124 Infantry mistreating enemy ...
July 15, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Other
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