prisoners and prisons, american

Janis Karpinski, the first female general to command American troops in a combat zone, recounts the events surrounding the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that ruined her career.

Presents relevant information about the abuse Iraqi prisoners faced at the hands of the U.S. military, with excerpts from the official Abu Ghraib Report, the Jones/Fay Investigation, photographs of the abuse, and key primary documents.

Presents a collection of documents and reports in which U.S. government officials wrote to prepare the way for the interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib prison.

The author tells the stories of a number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay as she provided supervised legal counsel and helped them find evidence that would prove their innocence.

A young girl, a third generation Japanese American, describes her experiences with her family after they were forced to leave their homes and imprisoned in an internment camp in Manzanar, California, during World War II.

More than fifteen POW camps housed German prisoners of war in Minnesota during World War II. This narrative details camp history, where they were, how the camps worked, how POW's contributed to Minnesota's and the U.S. economy, and how and when the camps ended.

Discusses the 370,000 Germans who were prisoners of war in the United States during World War II and the program established by the War Department to educate these prisoners to the benefits of democracy.

Libby Pelletier is drawn into the decades-old mystery surrounding the death of Dieter Kallick, an inmate at a Maine prison camp during World War II, when she learns that her own family is implicated in what appears to be the murder of the young German soldier.

Discusses the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Discusses the forced internment of Japanese-Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II.