Prisoner abuse is the mistreatment of persons while they are under arrest or incarcerated. Abuse falling into this category includes:
- Physical abuse: Needless beating, hitting, or other corporal punishment.
- Psychological abuse: Taunting, sleep deprivation, or other forms of psychological abuse, occasionally white noise
- Sexual abuse: Forced intercourse, genital mutilation, or other forms of sexual abuse.
- Other abuse: Refusal of essential medication, humiliation, etc.
- Enhanced interrogation: methods implemented in the War on Terror purportedly needed to extract information since other techniques would not yield results.
- Torture: any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted
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