Prisoner Abuse

Prisoner abuse is the mistreatment of persons while they are under arrest or incarcerated. Abuse falling into this category includes:

  • Physical abuse: Needless beating, hitting, or other corporal punishment.
  • Psychological abuse: Taunting, sleep deprivation, or other forms of psychological abuse, occasionally white noise
  • Sexual abuse: Forced intercourse, genital mutilation, or other forms of sexual abuse.
  • Other abuse: Refusal of essential medication, humiliation, etc.
  • Enhanced interrogation: methods implemented in the War on Terror purportedly needed to extract information since other techniques would not yield results.
  • Torture: any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted

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