Baghdad Central Prison
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How to send mail, money, and visit Baghdad Central Prison
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Gallery
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Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison Jr., U.S. Air Force via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by USDOJ Office of the Inspector General via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Sgt. Michael J. Carden, US Army via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Lt. Sean Riordan via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison Jr., U.S. Air Force via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Background
Abu Ghraib prison (Arabic: سجن أبو غريب, romanized: Sijn Abū Ghurayb) was a prison complex in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, located 32 kilometers (20 mi) west of Baghdad. It became internationally known as a place where Saddam Hussein's government tortured and executed dissidents, and later as the site of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal where the United States military's torture of Iraqi detainees was revealed in a series of photographs published in worldwide news media. Abu Ghraib gained international attention in 2003 following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, when the torture and abuse of detainees committed by guards in part of the complex operated by Coalition forces was exposed. Under Saddam's Ba'ath government, it was known as Abu Ghraib Prison and had a reputation as a place of torture and some of the worst cases of torture in the modern world. It was sometimes referred to in the Western media as "Saddam's Torture Central".
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1955
Closed 2014
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1955
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.