Atta, who had been serving a two-year sentence passed by a military tribunal for "thuggery," was tortured to death in prison by having water pumped into his mouth and anus, according to press reports.
But singer Genesis P Orridge - who, with his blonde bob, angora sweater, pumps, tits, prison tattoos and metal teeth, now looks like a cross between Mrs Merton and 50 Cent - made the event more freakshow than musical entertainment.
Health experts describe Russia's prison system as an "epidemiologic pump," continuously seeding the country with pockets of tuberculosis that can spread on their own.
For those of us who live in the US, social and racial injustice is glaringly obvious from the incarceration rate of people of colour and the huge amounts of money being pumped into the prison system.
And thanks to help from state representatives and advocacy groups, my sister's prison, too, has acquired a breast pump.
In fact, in a Nevada case (pdf) in which a prisoner was medically prescribed a breast pump, the pump was confiscated upon reentry into the prison.
"Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental illness," Justice Scalia wrote, "and many will undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym".
Calling the proceedings "a judicial travesty", Mr Scalia wrote that the decision will benefit inmates who "will undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym".
In one of the largest recent frauds, an Illinois man, Gary Winner of Planned Eldercare, was sentenced to more than three years in prison in February for shipping penis pumps to diabetes patients who did not order them.
