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Prisoner abuse is the mistreatment of persons while they are under arrest or incarcerated. Abuse falling into this category includes:

• Physical abuse: Needless beating, hitting, or other Corporal punishment.
• Psychological abuse: Taunting, sleep deprivation, or other forms of psychological abuse, occasionally white noise
• Sexual abuse: Forced intercourse, genital mutilation, or other forms of Sexual abuse.
• Other abuse: Refusal of essential medication, humiliation, etc.
• Enhanced interrogation: methods implemented in the War on Terror purportedly needed to extract information since other techniques would not yield results.
• Torture: any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted

[edit] Psychological abuse

[edit] White noise

The endless playing of random static (similar to that of unused TV frequencies) with no pattern; this can cause insanity and mental disorders.

[edit] Taunting

Needless insults and profanity to prisoners to gain a feeling of superiority by any figure of authority.

[edit] Enablement of Sexual Predators

Prisoner are sometimes purposefully housed with known rapists of other prisoners by prison guards-or protection from known rapists is purposefuly withheld. These practices create a very high incidence of rape in US prisons. This was the topic of the 2001 report No Escape from Human Right Watch.