The boy still needs extensive rehabilitation. Even with awl this they were
supposed to make him better, not worse! I can get you the original if you
wish...
Solitary Confinement Prescription for Slow Death or Insanity (Report)
The goal is to humiliate the prisoner, break his will, destroy his psyche,
and turn him into a body without a spirit. They are keen to turn him into
fertile ground for the spread of debilitating diseases that weaken the bones
and impair vision. They want the isolated prisoner to lose both spirit and
body, so that he will long for death a thousand times rather than remain
stuck within the same walls, talking to himself and counting the hours and
days that drag by, waiting to emerge from this dark tomb.
Riyad al-Ashqar, director of the Information Department of the Ministry,
explains that isolation is of two types: The first is in individual
cells -called snuke- in which a prisoner is held in solitary confinement.
These are no bigger than 1.5 × 2 meters, and there is no room to move, walk
or pray. There is one mattress, a blanket, one bottle for relieving oneself,
and another for drinking water. The prisoner is only allowed to go to the
bathroom once a day.
In these cells prisoners lose all sense of time; they do not know the times
of prayer or even when day turns to night. They are not allowed to have
watches, radios, newspapers, or any means of communication with the outside
world, nor are they permitted to purchase anything from the prison canteen.
The second type of isolation is in a wing of the prison completely devoted
to isolation cells. The cells in these sections are slightly better than
snuke, and are large enough to house more than one prisoner. They have a
toilet inside each cell, and prisoners are allowed to prepare food inside
the cell.
Suffering without Limits
Al-Ashqar identified a number of forms of suffering endured by prisoners
confined in isolation cells. Among the most serious is being confined in
sections that house common criminals; there they are subjected to every form
of abuse, curses, and having flammable liquids thrown at them. They are also
subjected to a steady assault on their religious sentiments and continued
harassment by loud music, constant drumming on their doors and being
repeatedly subjected to prisoner counts at short intervals.
Prisoners are not allowed to go out to the exercise "yard" except one hour a
day, and the guards manipulate the timing of that hour so that on bitterly
cold days they come at six in the morning to announce that anyone who wants
to exercise must wake up. If one prisoner wants to sleep and the other wants
to go out, the one who stays must wake up to have manacles placed on his
hands so that the other can go out. If he doesn't wake up, the other will be
deprived of the opportunity to go out in the yard. If they both want to go
out, manacles are put on both, and they go out one by one. Frequently one of
them will be required to remain out in the yard in manacles. Worse still,
manacles are a feature of all the details of daily life. Prisoners are
handcuffed when the trash is taken out, when receiving visits from lawyers
or family members, and when going out to the clinic or the court. The
prisoner will be placed on the examination bed and made to lie with his
hands under his back. Prisoners are even forced to give urine samples in a
most humiliating way while manacled.
The prisoner in isolation is imposed upon in all aspects of life. The prison
administration may, for instance, require one prisoner to be paired off with
another in cells that are usually cramped and poorly ventilated. The
administration will deliberately pair a non-smoker with a smoker or a
religious prisoner with a non-religious one to set the prisoners up for
24-hours-a-day of conflict. If one of them tries to protest or get a
transfer away from the other, the solution is blows and truncheons. They are
forced to live together, and if they refuse, all their personal belongings
are confiscated and the cell is converted to a snuke or torture chamber
stripped of all personal belongings. More than once the brothers are told,
"One of you could get rid of the other by having the other one die."
A prisoner is subjected to the severest penalties if he reads the Qur'an
aloud, or breaks anything inadvertently, or speaks with another prisoner in
the section. If a piece of metal, wire or string tied for some particular
purpose is found in a cell, all electrical devices will be removed from it
and the prisoner will be denied access to the canteen and the daily exercise
outing. As for visits from family members, these are already prohibited,
except in rare cases.
In addition, there are sudden raids in the middle of the night by a special
unit wearing masks and equipped with video cameras. They conduct violent
searches in which the prisoner is stripped naked for no reason and
handcuffed while his personal belongings are broken and trifled with and the
room is turned upside down. After the inspection is completed, the door is
locked and the prisoner sticks his hands through a large hole in the bottom
of the door to have the handcuffs removed. For two or three days after an
inspection a prisoner will work to restore order to his room, only to have
the same procedure repeated a few days later.
If a prisoner in isolation is afflicted by any health ailment he will have
to go through a complicated set of procedures before being able to see a
doctor. He will have to register for the clinic several times. Often the
isolation section will have a specific day of the week set aside when those
prisoners are allowed to go out for clinic visits. If the day is Monday, for
example, and the prisoner gets sick on Tuesday, he will have to wait the
whole week before being allowed to go to the clinic. If the officer assigned
to take him happens to be busy or has the day off, he loses his chance and
has to wait for another week. When he does finally get to the clinic he will
remain handcuffed during the examination and forced to listen to insults
from the doctor and the nurse. If blood tests or imaging are necessary, he
will have to wait for months, if he ever gets one.
Isolation wings tend to be unhealthy places with poor ventilation and poor
hygiene; rats run on the food, and the rooms are filled with cockroaches and
mosquitoes. Worst of all, the daily exercise yard is no more than a room 5
meters longs by 4 meters wide with a cement roof. It gets no sun, and it is
not possible to use it for exercise or even a walk, it being frequently
filled with the leftovers of the common criminals, such as urine, feces and
other filth.
Prisoners in isolation are denied all religious rights such as holidays,
Friday prayers, even religious books. A prisoner may even sometimes have his
prayer rug taken away. They are, likewise, deprived of family visits and of
newspapers.
Psychological effects
The report pointed out that isolation leaves great psychological effects on
a prisoner. For years on end he does not see anyone; he is either entirely
alone or with one other person, but the two of them cannot mingle with other
people. He is subjected to all forms of psychological torture and
deprivation, and then when he shows some signs of protest or of being
affected by his situation, he is accused of being suicidal. Force is
immediately brought to bear; his hands and feet are bound fast to a high
iron "perch" on which he sleeps. He is set free only twice a day for half an
hour each in the morning and evening to eat and go to the bathroom.
Many international human rights organizations have confirmed that isolation
leaves clear, striking psychological effects on prisoners. Some prisoners go
INSANE as a result of isolation from the world for long periods, for humans
are by nature social beings; they need to talk with others. Should a person
be forcibly deprived of expression of this natural instinct, he will be
vulnerable to serious mental illnesses that will affect the course of his
life.
Hey *SlaPPy...?*
SWAT take position on the cross because SpanKy say:
> > and BTW....that underage kidporn BULLSHIT bothers u SHITHEAD MORONS way
> > more that it > > ever bothered me. Everyone I know, KNOWs what happened,
> > so u IDIOT > >ASSHOLES can dream up all the convoluted bullshit that u
> > want, as to the > > way u WISH it had happened, and it STILL will NOT
> > affect my life in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER -Terry Herzog. Federally indicted,
> > raided, > >convicted, sentenced, imprisoned, registered yet still
> > unrepentant interstate trafficker of kiddie porn
http://tinyurl.com/2paq6a
Nazi! URINATER: Clinically and criminally insane, convicted rapist of small
children and large animals
http://tinyurl.com/2ze4a
Nazi! URINATER: Does his local Enquirer
http://tinyurl.com/6qg92n
Nazi! URINATER: Can teach you CODIS
SmacKy http://www.urinator.com
--
^o|o^
-----
I was in a hotel room in California once that had cockroaches in it. Luckily
they were awl in the flue.
|
|