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{{Short description|Identification number for prisoners of war}}
An '''Internment Serial Number''' ('''ISN''') is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the [[United States Department of Defense]] (DoD) during armed conflicts.<ref>
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== History ==
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a [[court order]] from [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York|District Judge]] [[Jed S. Rakoff]], the DoD released 57 files that contained [[Transcript (law)|transcript]]s from the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo Bay]] inmates' [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]s (CSRT) and [[Administrative Review Board]] hearings.<ref name=TheAge20060404>
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These transcripts were only identified by the prisoners' ISNs.
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On April 20, 2006, the DoD released the first of two official lists of captives, which contained the captives' ISNs, names, and nationalities.<ref name=DoDList>
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That list provided information about the 558 Guantanamo captives whom the DoD acknowledges were held in Guantanamo in August 2004 and whose status as "[[enemy combatant]]s" was confirmed or disputed by a CSRT.
On May 15, 2006, the DoD released a longer list of 759 individuals, which they asserted listed all those who had been held in military custody at Guantanamo.<ref name=DoDList2>
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On January 16, 2010, the DoD published a list of 645 captives who were held in the [[Bagram Theater internment facility]], in [[Afghanistan]].<ref name=BagramDetainees2010-01-16>
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Historian [[Andy Worthington]], author of ''[[The Guantanamo Files|The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison]]'', published an annotated version of the list, in which he noted that the numbers were not always assigned sequentially. Three former Guantanamo captives were re-
==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Guantanamo Bay captives legal and administrative procedures]]
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