God and Country Documentary:

The Current, CBC

There is a dark grey compound, a jumble of concrete buildings that sits on the outskirts of Baghdad. It has a twisted past. Abu Ghraib prison was well known among Iraqis - long before the U.S. invasion in 2003, as the place of choice for the torture of political dissidents - those who opposed Saddam Hussein's regime. Today the world knows it as the site the American military used to torture Iraqi men and women.

It's a grim place few would want to visit. But this morning we wanted to take you inside the thick walls of that prison through the penetrating words of a man who served there in 2004. An interrogator for the U.S. military.

Freelance documentary producer Tina Pittaway traveled to Iowa City, Iowa to speak with Joshua Casteel. To find out how a devout Christian with a love of literature and philosophy found himself in the dank and musty interrogation chambers of one of the world's most notorious prisons. To find out the price of patriotism and the cost to one man's soul.