Torture -- United States

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• Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact (2008), by Physicians for Human Rights (PDF with commentary at brokenlives.info)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (redacted unclassified version; 2008), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (PDF at senate.gov)
• Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality (Washington, DC: Physicians for Human Rights, 2007), by Scott Allen, Devon Chaffee, and Farnoosh Hashemian (PDF with commentary at physiciansforhumanrights.org)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF and Flash with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)
• Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Deborah Colson and Avi Cover (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Investigation Into the Office of Legal Counsel's Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency's Use of "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" on Suspected Terrorists (redacted for public release, 2009), by United States Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (PDF at house.gov)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF and Flash with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Cameroon: Blatant Disregard for Human Rights (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Political Imprisonment in Cuba (reprint; CANF pamphlet #22; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1987), by Amnesty International (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Israel / South Lebanon: Israel's Forgotten Hostages: Lebanese Detainees in Israel and Khiam Detention Centre (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Suspicious Sweeps: The General Intelligence Department and Jordan's Rule of Law Problem (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Christoph Wilcke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Kenya, Violations of Human Rights: Communications between Amnesty International and the Government of Kenya (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Israel / South Lebanon: Israel's Forgotten Hostages: Lebanese Detainees in Israel and Khiam Detention Centre (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Mexico: Amnesty International's Concerns Regarding Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico, by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)

• Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact (2008), by Physicians for Human Rights (PDF with commentary at brokenlives.info)

• The Wire, by Amnesty International (full serial archives)

• Combating Torture: A Manual for Action (2003), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF with commentary at amnesty.org)

• Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2004), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Torture in Russia: "This Man-Made Hell" (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Senegal: Climate of Terror in Casamance, by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Syria: Long-Term Detention and Torture of Political Prisoners (1992), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria: Torture, Despair and Dehumanization in Tadmur Military Prison (2001), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009), by National Research Council Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community (multiple formats at NAP)

• Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations (second edition, 2002), by United States Department of Justice (HTML at cybercrime.gov)

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, by Alice Morse Earle
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at getchwood.com

• Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, by Alice Morse Earle
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at getchwood.com

• Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the US Justice System (1998), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases and What Can be Done About Them (two parts, 2000 and 2002), by James S. Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, and Valerie West (PDF files with commentary at the Justice Project)
• Capital Punishment in the United States (reprint of U-Pennsylvania dissertation; Philadelphia: Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia, Yearly meeting of Friends, 1919), by Raymond T. Bye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty in the USA (1998), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• United States of America: "A Macabre Assembly Line of Death": Death Penalty Developments in 1997 (1998), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• United States of America: Death Penalty Developments in 1996 (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA (ca. 2008), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)

• Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, ed. by Alfred Blumstein
  • volume I: page images at NAP
  • volume II: page images at NAP

• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts: 2009 Update and Recent Developments (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2009), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms (2003), by United States Department of Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals", ed. by Alfred Blumstein
  • volume I: page images at NAP
  • volume II: page images at NAP
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts: 2009 Update and Recent Developments (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2009), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, by United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (HTML at Albany)

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