Gitmo detainees tie abuse to Iowan's restraint chair

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Ick! Today Gitmo, tomorrow the nation's nursing homes.<br><br>See link for entire article.<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060306/NEWS01/603060340/1001&lead=1">www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060306/NEWS01/603060340/1001&lead=1</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>Gitmo detainees tie abuse to Iowan's restraint chair<br>KEVIN DOBBS<br>REGISTER STAFF WRITER<br><br><br>March 6, 2006<br><br><br><br>A special chair that Crawford County Sheriff Tom Hogan designed to prevent violent inmates from hurting jailers and themselves has blossomed into an international enterprise — and landed at the center of an international controversy.<br><br>Hogan, who has made the chairs in his Denison garage for the past 15 years, sold about 400 of them at $1,150 each last year. Among his customers: the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where inmates' lawyers recently charged that the chairs are used for torture.....<br><br>......Prisoners are also left in the chairs for hours at a time to defecate on themselves, their lawyers claim....<br><br><br><br>.....Hogan said he has faith that the U.S. military will use his chairs as they are intended. He also said that open, public discussion about the issue is important to make sure that the government does just that.<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

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<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Hogan said he has faith that the U.S. military will use his chairs as they are intended.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>And their intended use is? Oh, that's right, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>restraining a prisoner.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> Pfft, dude, I don't doubt for a minute either that that's <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>exactly </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->what they're being used for.<br><br>But ain't it nice that the little guy can make a buck in this War on Terra too? It's all good. Now keep on shopping!<br><br> <p></p><i></i>