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$42 Million Jury Award for Detainees Tortured by U.S. Military at Abu Ghraib Prison

Loaded on April 1, 2025 published in Prison Legal News April, 2025, page 24
Filed under: Settlements, Torture Victims Act, Pretrial Detention and Detainees, Immigration Law/Offenses. Location: Virginia.

In November 2024, a federal jury in Virginia awarded $42 million to three former prisoners held and tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. The case, filed in 2008, had been the subject of protracted litigation for over 15 years.

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