• Authorities say procedure is essential to prevent smuggling
• Prisoners chained and shackled in empty cell for days on end
• 'This is torture, no matter how you look at it'
Shane Bauer in Oakland
theguardian.com, Monday 2 June 2014
In 2009, California High Desert state prison inmate Michael Bloom was
put in a small cage and told to strip naked. Two correctional officers
put his boxers on backwards and taped them to his body, wrapping the
tape around his waist and thighs numerous times.
Then they put a
second pair of underwear on him, facing the front, and taped those to
his body. They dressed him in a jumpsuit and wound tape around his
ankles, waist, thighs, and biceps. Then they put another jumpsuit on
him, backwards, and taped it the same way. His legs were chained to one
another at the ankles and his wrists were shackled to a chain around his
waist.
Thirty-three year old Bloom, imprisoned in 2007 for
assault with a firearm and first-degree robbery, was then put in a cell,
empty of everything but a metal bed. A correctional officer sat
directly in front of his door and watched him constantly. At night, he
was brought a thin mattress, but the bright lights were left on. He
wasn’t given a blanket or anything to cover his eyes. He remained
shackled as he tried to sleep. His chains dug into his back and wrists.
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