SOCI 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Australian Immigration Detention Facilities, Tros, Prison Litigation Reform Act
22 Dec 2017
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Module 8 torture, detainees, and the war on terror. War on terror : punishment & torture: immediate aftermath of 9/11, us adopts interrogation policy which laid groundwork for prisoner abuse & torture. Bush administration calls them enemy combatants so they fall outside of the standard. Interrogations from 3rd countries would carry-out interrogations at cia run black sites to get around american laws against torture. By outsourcing torture, private contractors (not properly trained weekend warriors ) in. Beatings : and other forms of physical assault are the most low tech and middle used forms of torture (stress position, the insult slap, suspension, shaking) Electricity : many countries used cattle prods or attached car batteries; featured lamp wirings, others use advance stun weaponry that can deliver shocks up to. Psychological abuse : prolonged solitary con nement, sleep deprivation, mock executions and waterboarding; milder forms include the administration of the truth serum drug to make subjects jumpy and thus easier to interrogate.
