Jury awards $42M to Abu Ghraib torture survivors
by editors@theworld.org (Stephen Snyder) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6S6SQ)
An American defense contractor, CACI, whose employees worked as interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad during the US occupation of Iraq, has been ordered to pay $42 million dollars in damages to three Iraqi plaintiffs over the torture and abuse they suffered while in detention. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights about the case, which took 16 years to litigate.