Army Finds Few Lapses in Health Care of Prisoners
An Army assessment has found no evidence of systemic problems in medical care of prisoners at American detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba, Army officials said Thursday. The five-month review was the latest of a series of examinations of the military begun after the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became known. The review, however, was not intended to delve into accounts from some interrogators that military psychiatrists or psychologists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, provided advice on how to conduct coercive interrogations of detainees, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, the Army surgeon general, said at a Pentagon news conference. Full Story