But, since Lauveng explicitly says she wouldn't be alive today if force had not been used to prevent her from harming herself, it is difficult for the layman to know at what point restraint is appropriate.
I learned about rubber rooms and how to perform a four point restraint and "contract for safety" with a young person screaming that, when I let him go, he would surely cut my f***ing face off.
He decried the practice of confining detainees undergoing the treatment into a "five-point restraint chair" – during which a detainee's head and limbs are tied down.
During the earlier hunger strike, Guantánamo officials took a softer approach, keeping the feeding tubes inserted in detainees for days at a time and allowing detainees to communicate with each other while fed under relatively minimal "two-point" restraint.
The Guantánamo officers cited the experience of a 2005-era hunger strike as critical to informing why they now remove hunger strikers' feeding tubes – a practice doctors testifying for Dhiab called painful, unnecessary and dangerous – and strap them into "five-point restraint" chairs.
In late December 2005, forensic psychiatrists and officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons visited Guantánamo to recommend new safeguards, Justice Department attorneys recounted, leading to the adoption of the five-point restraint chair and the removal of the naso-gastric tubes for each feeding.
During a typical detainee force-feeding at Gitmo, a hunger-striker is strapped in a multi-point restraint chair (manufacturer's slogan: "it's like a padded cell on wheels") and a 100cm tube is forced down his nose and into his stomach twice a day: it's not a pretty process.
Were they not in a "humane one-point restraint," the guard told me, they might hang themselves with the wires. .
2. Forward facing toddler seat (five-point restraint belt) until age four and a weight of at least 40 pounds.
The BOP suggested the use of five-point restraint chairs, described by the company's manufacturer, a retired sheriff, as a "padded cell on wheels".
Moreover, adjustment was made for conditions that may reduce motivation to move, such as depression, pain frequency, pain intensity, and the presence of an indwelling catheter, which has been termed a "one-point restraint" [ 8].
