The torture and prisoner abuse debate
By: Laura L. Finley.
Series: Historical guides to controversial issues in America
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780313342929
Subjects: Torture -- United States; Political prisoners -- Abuse of -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : describing the problem; title: Torture and its origins; title: Prison abuse in the U.S. pre-civil rights era; title: The Central Intelligence Agency and torture; title: Domestic prison abuse today; title: Abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq; title: Summing it up; title: Timeline of significant events in the history of torture and prisoner abuse.