After the fall of the Iraqi regime, U.S. troops arrived at Abu
Ghraib Prison on or around the 22nd of April, 2003.
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They were prisoners of war captured by the military and Abu
Ghraib (a former Iraqi state prison) had been taken over by the US
military and was functioning as a military prison.
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Both American guards in Abu Ghraib and in the Zimbardo Stanford
Study had minimal guidance and were later detached and let
loose.