2. Torture of prisoners
Nowadays, torture is practiced in more than 90% of all countries in all regions of the
world, big or small, dictatorship or democracy. Sadly it’s continues phenomenon until our time
today. it take places on places of detention like on prisons or the integration room which allowed
the problem to stay remain , because the prisoner will not goanna till the truth . torture can be
defined as the act of inflicting excruciating pain , as a punishment or revenge , to try and acquire
some sort of confession about some particular issue or some information also is could be just a
method of inflicting such pain often suffering for that particular individual is extreme grief of the
body or the mind . “ torture in prisons means an act committed by a person acting under the color
of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain
or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical
control ” (Reagan, 1988)
From centuries there was a programs designed by the military which train forces to caught a
prisoner of war if they caught as a shameful enemy to torture them during integration. Sadly they
went through many things beating, starvation, stress, stripped naked and thrown into small cages.
It’s really a strange way to obtain information from prisoners.
Some of the crucial torture methods that were used in the prisons in the past are the tub, which
knowing as the punishment of sitting in the tub; the convicted person would be placed in a wooden
tub with only their head sticking out. Also they have the brazen bull, also known as the Sicilian
bull; it was designed on ancient Greece. A solid peace of brass was cat with a door on the side that
could lock and opened. The victim (prisoner) would be placed inside the bull and a fire set
underneath it until the metal became yellow as it was heated. The victim would then be slowly
roasted to death all while screaming from the pain.
Also they have the implement punishment methods which were in the 15th century in Romania.
The victim (prisoner) was forced to sit on a sharp and thick pole. When the pole was then raised
up right, the victim was left to slide down the pole with their weight. It could take the victim three
days to need die with this pain.
Another ways of torture that was used in the past also is heretic’s fork. This torture device
consisted of a metal piece with two opposed bi-pronged forks attached to a belt or strap. One end
3. of the device was pushed under the chin, the other to the sternum, and the strap was used to
secure the victim’s neck to the tool while the victim hung from the ceiling or was somehow
suspended so that they could not sleep. If their heads dropped, the prongs would pierce their
throat and chest.
Moreover, some torture techniques that is using in modern times on the prisons are very
inhumanely. The first one is tiger bench. China really hates the practitioners of Falun Gong, a sort
of spiritual discipline first introduced in 1992. Since the beginning, many Falun Gong followers
have been brutally punished. One form of torture used on them is a device called the tiger bench.
This works by placing a prisoner on a long bench, with a board against their back and head. The
prisoner is then tied down so their back is secured to the board and their feet and legs are secured
to the bench. Next, bricks are placed under their feet, until all the straps holding the legs down
break—or the prisoner’s legs snap before the straps do. And one example of this is the case from
2002; a Ms. Wang was walking home when the police abducted her. For two days and one night,
she was tortured on the tiger bench, while also being beaten and electrocuted. The shackles dug
into her ankles so badly that her bones were visible by the end of the torture. Along with the tiger
bench, Ms. Wang was also beaten by the guards, hung naked on a wooden board so male
prisoners could humiliate her, had one of her eyes burned by a cigarette, and had her ears stabbed
with skewers. She eventually died in 2007, while still in police custody. Another way that they are
use today is the Shuanggui. In China, shuanggui is a form of extralegal detention used by the
Communist party on people who are suspected of corruption. In reality though, it seems like
anyone could end up being tortured in a shuanggui. Inside these detention centers, any form of
torture is possible. One man, Yu Qiyi, a 42-year-old chief engineer at a state-owned investment
firm was held in a shuanggui for 38 days, being repeatedly dunked in ice-cold water until he was
eventually pronounced dead. Pictures of the man’s body also show large bruise marks and heavy
scarring all over his body. There is still no evidence as to why he was taken into custody in the first
place. Qiyi’s case isn’t abnormal either. Many people have been held in shuanggui for long periods
of time, with reports of people being tortured with physical manipulation, sleepdeprivation,
beatings, burnings, and electrocutions. Another strange way is something called the German
Chair When a detainee is captured; they are placed in a metal chair. Their legs and arms are
secured to the metal seat while the back of the chair is pulled back and down toward the ground.
This causes severe stress onthe spine, neck, and other limbs, often causing permanent damage.
Basically, if your back doesn’t break, you are more than human. Joseph Hallit knows the German
chair all too well. In 1992, Syrian forces nabbed Hallit just after he had obtained his medical
degree from the University of Damascus. For four years, he was kept in solitary confinement, and
for another four he was tortured. The most severe brutality he endured was the German chair. He
says his flesh was torn so deeply from being stretched that he could see the nerves. To this day he
still has 3-centimeter (1.2 in) wide scars on both his arms from the torturous stretching.
4. So after all these examples from the past and today, do you still think that torture is ethically and
morally right for the prisoners evenwith their own mistakes, do you think that they believe all this
crucial and inhumanly acts.
Researchseems to highlight that torture in prison can be bad methods of investigation of
prisoners. It is important to note that torture of prisoners is very crucial and inhumanely and
cause very seriously psychological and mental problem.
Torture for centuries has been a bad way to extract information from terrorist. Torture is wrong
attitude ethically and morally of the humanity it’s inhumanely and crucial .torture is not just a
word. Torture is absolutely never being okay, it never justified the humanity. “As they are not a
threat, they are to be treated humanely.” (Freddie, APr27)There is many other ways to get the
information from the prisoners and evenmany answer that they gene under torture are not true
and not effective. There is many other ways to discover if the prisoner tilling the truth or what and
also you can take the information from them , by using technology , for example the machine poly
graph give a clear information if the person lay or not . Every human being deserve respect evenif
he/she doing something bad or wrong. If the investitures torture them on an investigation to try to
take from them information , they by this give them more methods of evil they are given them
ideas that torture is good , and I’m pretty sure that no one will talk they will keepquiet and not
giving them any information . The investigators by this way treat the prisoners as a thing (animal)
not as a human, so each act of torture they act, they make it easierfor the people in the future to
use. You know prisoners say anything just to stop the pain they suffer but not telling the truth,
they know that whatever they say you will believe them because you torture them badly .for
example if you was an investigator in a ticking bomb scenario which is a commonly cited moral
problem that lead us ask our moral and ethical priorities. Imagine that a plot of bomb has been
discover and its possible to evacuate the city, the time is ticking of the explosion and you cannot
break it. A suspect who knows the location of the bomb is arrested but refuse to corporate with
you. would you torture the suspect to get the truth because we feel a lot of bad that we cannot save
the city and keeptrying hard to get the truth , or you will stay calm and try to get the information
hardly by make with them an arrangement that you will soften the duration of pretrial if they till
the truth or you will protect them from harm or be a psychologist till them that you can
understand why they make this and that you know what happen in their past make them like this ,
and really the will believe and they will goanna till you the truth like the police movie (CSI ,
Intelligence , NCSI ) .
Tortures in prisons cause a very huge psychological problem to the prisoners. Human beings are
social creatures. Without the benefit of another person to "bounce off of," the mind decays;
without anything to do, the brain atrophies; and without the ability to see off in the distance,
vision fades. Isolation and loss of control breeds anger, anxiety, and hopelessness. Isolation can be
psychologically harmful to any prisoner, with the nature and severity of the impact depending on
the individual, the duration, and particular conditions. Psychological effects can include anxiety,
depression, anger, cognitive disturbances, perceptual distortions, obsessive thoughts, paranoia,
5. and psychosis. In isolation, people become anxious and angry, prone to hallucinations and wild
mood swings, and unable to control their impulses. The problems are evenworse in people
predisposed to mental illness, and can wreak long-lasting changes in prisoners’ minds.
Under international law, torture is illegal to use in any situation. It will damage the reputation and
the ethical and moral authority of the institution. It cannot be justified under any circumstances.
Torture is ethically and morally despicable. For investigators stay calm is the right moral and
ethical decision to make in an investigation, they should not lose they calm under any
circumstances, they should respect the prisoner as a human not as an animal.
