An Iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad in 2006. (Khalid Mohammed/AP) During his campaign, President Trump repeatedly said that “torture works” — that it gets ...

Juveniles may be particularly vulnerable to falsely admitting guilt, according to a study led by Florida International University psychologist Lindsay C. Malloy. The findings were published this week ...

With little notice, the Department of Defense issued long-awaited regulations last week requiring that all formal interrogations of detainees be videotaped and monitored for compliance with treaties ...

For decades, criminal investigators have known that the best way to obtain and preserve reliable information is to electronically record interviews and interrogations. And yet agents of the Federal ...

Iran’s judicial system allows detainees and prisoners to be subjected to harsh and inhuman interrogations without access to counsel and with impunity for interrogators and other judicial officials.

Even when not under arrest, juvenile suspects being interrogated for a crime may be strikingly unaware of their constitutional rights and confess without legal counsel or even a parent present, ...

The CIA subjected “war on terror” detainees it held captive at black site prisons to sleep deprivation, rectal feeding, waterboarding, ice-water baths, painful stress positions, beatings, mock ...

The Last Week Tonight host explores issues with police interrogations, which often place extracting a confession over determining truth John Oliver investigated the unreliability and predatory nature ...