02553oam 2200529 a 450 991082522660332120170523091547.0979-82-16-02651-81-282-34090-597866123409010-313-34293-810.5040/9798216026518(OCoLC)426031003(MiFhGG)GVRL2MEI(MiAaPQ)EBC617368(DLC)BP9798216026518BC(CKB)1000000000707291(EXLCZ)99100000000070729120240214e20082024 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrThe torture and prisoner abuse debate /Laura L. FinleyWestport, Conn. :Greenwood Press,2008.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),20241 online resource (187 pages)Historical guides to controversial issues in America,1541-0021Description based upon print version of record.0-313-34292-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : describing the problem -- Torture and its origins -- Prison abuse in the U.S. pre-civil rights era -- The Central Intelligence Agency and torture -- Domestic prison abuse today -- Abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq -- Summing it up -- Timeline of significant events in the history of torture and prisoner abuse.Revelations about U.S. torture and prisoner abuse in blatant violation of the long-established and universally recognized Geneva Conventions have horrified most Americans. Nevertheless, it has been argued that the high stakes of the War on Terror have made the protections offered by the Conventions obsolete, or that the abuses are the work of a few rogue soldiers and officers. This book reaches past the headlines into the historical record to document POW torture and also domestic prisoner abuse dating well back in our history as well as government and military knowledge of and collusion in suHistorical guides to controversial issues in America.Political prisonersAbuse ofUnited StatesTortureUnited StatesPolitical prisonersAbuse ofTorture364.67Finley Laura L1670323DLCDLCBOOK9910825226603321The torture and prisoner abuse debate4076894UNINA