> if that's being done to someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime, that seems worrying If that's being done to someone who has been convicted of a crime,

> if that's being done to someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime, that seems worrying If that's being done to someone who has been convicted of a crime, it would still be horrible. The U.S. has a constitutional prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" (8th Amendment), and we claim to be a country that upholds basic human rights. This is the kind of abuse our government would complain about if some other country subjected our citizens to it.