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Medic Robert Melone gave forced intravenous fluids to prisoners.

Description of medical care of a prisoner alleging abuse. This is interesting because of the homicide that occurred there. There is no memory of this death or the abuse of these prisoners by staff although many prisoner accounts of death.

State dept assessment of prison.

A Department of State assessment of improved conditions and medical care at Shiberghan prison in Afghanistan.

Medical summary of suicide attempt at Guantanamo with anoxic brain damage (p. 611-12).

United Nations Working Group.  Long term mental health consequences of mistreatment at Guantanamo prisoners (p. 31-32).

Lack of medical records system and how that affected abuse investigations (p. 47, 81, 116, 136).

General Miller notes inadequate isolation and treatment of mentally ill and infectious prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

Fathel Ibrahim Mahmood with recurrent chest pain denied medical evaluation by Army medic and then died of heart attack (p. 01181-1203).

Psychologist who worked with interrogators at Abu Ghraib tried to obtain medical help for a prisoner with an open catheter and the surgeon, who knew that a medical error had been made, abruptly refused her request for medical assistance and dismissed her (p.340-345). The physician denies this (p.347).

Overview of medical operations at Abu Ghraib

Frequent heart attacks at Abu Ghraib (p. 52, 61, 68, 70, 73, 80, 87, 90, 125, 130, 138.  See also Deaths Index and Medcom files.).

Abu Ghraib warden, Reese, reports that many prisoners were mentally ill.

Spencer Guards who hose down prisoners who smeared themselves with feces (p.20).

Medic Neil Wallin forced IV of prisoner who would not drink, saw another person who slammed his head against a wall (p. 15). 

Jordan says that Dr. Anderson was aware of untreated psychotic prisoner who banged head on wall and that the head of Abu Ghraib refused to allow "mentally unstable" persons to be separated from the general prison population (p. 158). 

Mental illness created by interrogation (p. 404).

Mentally ill prisoners degraded, restrained, and photographed in degrading positions (p. 112).

Physician Ausch, commander of medical operations at Abu Ghraib, knew that the prisoner known as Jihad Jerry who was photographed on a leash was psychotic and in the cell blocks and allowed a restraint to be used in the cell block (p 20-12).

An investigation of a riot at Abu Ghraib in which prisoners were shot who were rioting in part because of lack of soap and showers.  Better hygienic supplies were recommended.

Major Dinenna describes irregular, insufficient, filthy meals and lack of response to this problem.

Commanding officer describes sanitation at Abu Ghraib.

Abu Ghraib: inadequate hygiene and public health (p.99, 101).

Tuberculosis drugs were not stocked and at least one child and adult died of TB at Camp Cropper, Iraq (p.18:5; 20:7).

Anonymous 11. Detainee died soon after requesting medical care and being medically cleared.  Medical records lost.

Awayed Wanas Jabar fell out of a window at Husaybah, Iraq and was seen by medic who cleared him and then he died.  Subsequent investigation shows that this account was seriously incomplete--possible medic coverup in initial investigation of an abusive interrogation (p. 3713).

Awayed Wanas Jabar (p. 3725).

Awayed Wanas Jabar (p. 3769-88).

Awayed Wanas Jabar (Marine 1139-1175).

Iraq Latrine and Cell Block Cleaning policy  (p. 8511-12)6.

Intake policy, including medical  (p. 8502-6).

#007 Abdureda Lafta Abdul Kareem (aka Abu Malik Kenami) Case 7 Part 1: Medically evaluated prisoner who died while restrained and hooded (p. 01206-19).

Description of mental health care of a psychotic prisoner (p.369).

Anonymous 10. Prisoner with heart disease not screened on prison transfer and dies of recognized disease.

Anonymous 10. Detainee died soon after requesting medical care and being medically cleared (p. 6242-6270).

Prisoner died a few minutes after being cleared as well by a medic at Tikrit. (p. 6241-6312).

Prisoner died at Camp Whitehorse after being certified as well by a medic (p. 6318-39, 54-56).

Surgeon describes general prisons operations and inadequate training in prisoner treatment.

ICRC finds credible allegations of death from lack of medical attention at Tikrit (Iraq) and other locations (p. 11), abuse and neglect of mentally ill (p. 13), riots over poor sanitation suppressed with lethal force (p. 19), families not notified of illness or death (p. 8), false death certificates (p. 10).

Mentally ill care grossly neglected in Iraq prisons (p. 47-48).

E-mail correspondence on the inadequate health and sanitation systems, inadequate planning and resources for same in Iraq (p. 387-407).

Medical officer describes inadequate medical training and supplies in prisons.

Medical Officer describes inadequate training in prisoner treatment.

Medical officer describes medical training and operations in prisons.

Commanding officer describes medical operations in prison.

Medical officer pastes in prison medical operations policies in prisons in response to being asked about compliance.

Physician practiced and taught a surgical procedure on a dead prisoner (p. 20-12).

Chronology of Detainee Guard issues includes neglect of medical needs and callous disregard of prisoner.

Suicide attempt by hanging, diagnosed with depression given one dose of haloperidol and 30 days of antidepressants and sent back to prison (p.755-756). 

Psychotic prisoners were left in metal boxes that ran to 130 degrees (p. 20:14).

Commanding officer describes sanitation at a prison.

There was a lack of clothing, bedding and the food was of low quality with cockroaches in it (20:10-12).

Lack of training in prisoner medical screening and treatment (p. 19).  The behavioral clinicians were not in involved in routine clinical care thereby avoiding any conflict of interest and the medical records were not inappropriately used to develop interrogation strategies although they did have easy access to such information in Iraq and Afghanistan (p.20).

Annex 20 of the Surgeon General report contains a variety of reports of scarcity of personnel, basic drugs, surgical equipment, and other medical supplies; long delays in obtaining supplies; the reuse of contaminated equipment; the failure to transport seriously ill prisoners to a hospital; discharge of post-op prisoners with open wounds to cell blocks; coercive requests to confirm death due to natural causes by intelligence personnel, instances of use of non-therapeutic drugs on prisoners; interrogators working as medics, etc.

Prison medical records were not adequate (p. 6:1-4, 8:1-5).

There was no health policy for two years in Afghanistan and one year in Iraq (p. 7:1-6).

Detainee lice/delousing policy (p. 9656-9661).

AFRD Policy for Prisoner deaths and for repatriation of ill prisoners (p. 9662-9665).

Soldiers Manual and Training Guide (Part I).

Soldiers Manual and Training Guide (Part II) Medication policies in prisons 3:437-438.

Medical system strengths and weaknesses in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mikolashek report (throughout).

Inspections of medical, public health, human rights, and living conditions of small camps.

Poor sanitation and public health in prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mikolashek report (throughout).