In her autobiography, Shakur claims that she was beaten and restrained by several large female officers after refusing a medical exam from a prison doctor shortly after giving birth.
For example, WWASP's "Tranquility Bay" facility in Jamaica is notorious for being anything but tranquil one neighbor told me he regularly heard "horror movie" like screams emanating from the place and teens who were sent report being kept awake by the cries of those who are being beaten or restrained by employees.
Typically, they have not been convicted but are awaiting trial in detention centres where they are likely to be beaten, painfully restrained and subjected to humiliating treatment.
Due to the fact that these are cash-only businesses, armed robberies are commonplace, and a Wild West atmosphere has colored the industry, as exemplified by a man and woman who were restrained, beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted in a Bakersfield dispensary in September 2015.
The inmate, Joseph Tracy of Bridgeport, was restrained and beaten last January.
He said the proceeding was the first time he had ever heard allegations that his sister had restrained or beaten her child.
Anna M.'s son has changed after he was restrained and beaten.
Ha was diagnosed as possessed by a demon, then restrained and beaten to death during her six hour exorcism in Emeryville, California in 1995.
Ha was diagnosed as possessed by a demon, then restrained and beaten to death during her six-hour exorcism in Emeryville, California, in 1995.
So when we read in black and white last year that teenagers had been teargassed, "restrained", stripped and beaten at Don Dale, it is hard not to conclude there was more than an element of fatigue in decisions about how or whether to pursue it further – a subconscious view that it's all too hard, all too far away, and yet all too familiar.
