I take a much darker view of how combatants & non combantants would be treated in T2K. My general assumption is that once the strategic exchange begins, that the character of the war would begin to resemble the worst aspects of the Eastern Front in WWII. I can easily see disiplince breaking down on both sides following November 1997 (earlier for European armies subject to theatre range attacks prior to the use of ICBMS) in regards to the treatment of prisoners.
I think that this would be haphazard however, with some units giving quarter, but increasingly more and more units would not, especially as the burden for feeding & providing aid to POWs becomes more of a drain on both sides logistical systems which would be beginning to come apart at the seams.
As resources decline, and the remaining units in the field are fighting for survival, producing their own food, fuel, and ammunition, the best that a POW might ask for is slave labor in the capturing units catonment, and a great many might be executed once any intel could be gained from the POWs.
By 2000 I think that fit POWs would be disarmed and sent to work camps, with very meager rations where they would basically be worked to death, and the unfit and injured would be killed.
Not a very uplifting outlook, but neither is the premise of a Twillight War. I just think that it would degrade to the lowest point.
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