No one is going to be tortured: they will have carefully calibrated amounts of chilli rubbed into their skin or heat applied to the backs of their hands.
Critics argue the unit has been seriously neglected in recent years, after making an initial impact when it was established in 2005 as a response to the abuse of child B – an eight-year-old Angolan girl who was beaten, cut and had chilli rubbed in her eyes for being a "witch".
One teenage prisoner told the Guardian: "The police started on our hands and fingers, breaking them with gun butts, and by the end when tears were streaming down our faces, we were hung by our ankles and had chilli rubbed in our wounds".
Hang around long enough and they'll probably barbecue your dining companion, too, under that salt-chilli-cumin rub.
She was cut with a knife on her chest, had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes, was starved and repeatedly slapped, kicked and beaten.
Known as Child B to protect her identity, the young Angolan girl was cut with a knife, beaten with a belt and shoe and had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes to drive the devil out of her.
The court heard that the child, who was brought to Britain from Angola by her aunt after her parents died, had been beaten, cut and had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes to 'beat the devil out of her'.
In another case Child B, who was brought to the UK in 2002 after her parents were killed in Angola, was beaten, cut with a knife and had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes to beat the "devil" out of her.
You can get chilli-cocoa rubbed Filet Mignon, shoestring wrapped prawns and sweet potato gratin – all in one dish.
Guardian-reading liberals are supposed to discriminate between sensible Christians who believe in witches and exorcism - but who would never rub chilli pepper in a girl's eyes just because they thought she was a witch - and the kind of lunatics who believe in witchcraft and exorcism and then go on to torture their victims.
