The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. –Dostoyevsky
One thing is for certain: There won’t be any more mass graves and torture rooms and rape rooms. –George W. Bush
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees. –Hoess, SS Kommandant, Auschwitz
Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. –Edward Kennedy
Bush Administration Documents
Torture Justification Memo
