Lynndie Rana England is a former United States Army Reserve soldier who was prosecuted for mistreating detainees during the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse that occurred at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the Iraq War. She was one of 11 military personnel from the 372nd Military Police Company who were convicted in 2005 for war crimes. After being sentenced to three years in prison and a dishonorable discharge, England was incarcerated from September 27, 2005, to March 1, 2007, when she was released on parole.
Official portrait, c. 2000
England forcing an inmate, known to the guards as "Gus", to crawl and bark like a dog on a leash.
Detainees were placed into a human pyramid. England and Graner posed for the picture.
England poses in front of a detainee being forced to masturbate.
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the killing of Manadel al-Jamadi and the desecration of his body. The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by CBS News in April 2004. The incidents caused shock and outrage, receiving widespread condemnation within the United States and internationally.
This image of a prisoner (Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh) being tortured has become internationally infamous, eventually making it onto the cover of The Economist (see "Media coverage" below)
Lynndie England holding a leash attached to a naked male prisoner, known to the guards as "Gus"
Sergeant Smith, a dog handler, uses a dog to scare a bound prisoner.
Sergeant Frederick interrogates a detainee chained to his cell wall in an uncomfortable position.