Abu Ghraib
  
  
    
      
  
  
  
      
  
  
  
    
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        March 20, 2009 -
        
  
        A federal court in Virginia ruled this week that four former Abu Ghraib detainees who were tortured and later released without charge can sue a military contractor that carried out interrogatio
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
          
              
            
            
            
        November 22, 2005 -
        
  
        Posted by R. Neal		As a follow up to some of the torture related news posted here in the last couple of days, here's a handy guide to help sort out some of the technical terms:		Enhanced interrogation techniques: Torture		Dietary manipulation: Torture by starvation
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
          
              
            
            
            
        May 18, 2005 -
        
  
        Taking a page from the Pentagon's Abu Ghraib playbook, BP Amoco has decided where the blame lies for the deadly March 23 blast at its Texas City refinery: with a few bad apples "low-
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
          
              
            
            
            
        February 17, 2005 -
        
  
        Laura LaFay, writing in the latest Southern Exposure, draws a revealing parallel between the Abu Ghraib scandals and similar abuses in Southern prison
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        January 1, 2004 -
        
  
        Abuse of Iraqi inmates follows a pattern established in Southern prisons