Torture is outlawed in international law and US law; yet the practice continues. Evidence suggests that the United States tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib. This paper suggests that torture occurred at Abu Ghraib and may continue to occur because guards naturally display their dominance over prisoners, in order to stay in control and because Abu Ghraib Prison was massively understaffed and soldiers and interrogators were untrained. When the United States was receiving too much publicity for the Abu Ghraib scandal, they immediately came out and said that it was a “few bad apples” (George R. Mastroianni, Looking Back: Abu Ghraib). As can be seen know now that this was infact a bad barrel narrative, the soldiers were placed in environment where
