re: #189 funky chicken

For heaven’s sakes. You have a prison full of people who make Scott Roeder look like a religious moderate. It’s amazing that more of them haven’t killed themselves, either in mass suicide waves or in despair that the “Great Satan” hasn’t been humbled.

Too bad we won’t luck out and somehow convince Roeder and that Paul Hill freak to kill themselves too.

The report is heavily redacted because GTMO has lots of top secret stuff going on, and I’m sure they want to keep the method of suicide secret.

It’s not the suicides that are necessarily problematic; all institutions (psychiatric hospitals, prisons) inevitably have some attempts and some will always manage to be successful, I suspect, no matter how closely you watch them. (Desperate people do desperate things).
The issue involves the coverup, and especially the fear that they were not suicides.

The new study exposes how the NCIS report purports that all three prisoners on the prison’s Alpha Block did the following to commit suicide:

• Braided a noose by tearing up their sheets and/or clothing.
• Made mannequins of themselves so it would appear to the guards they were asleep in their cells.
• Hung sheets to block the view into the cells.
• Stuffed rags down their own throats well past a point which would have induced involuntary gagging.
• Tied their own feet together.
• Tied their own hands together.
• Hung the noose from the metal mesh of the cell wall and/or ceiling.
• Climbed up on to the sink, put the noose around their necks and release their weight, resulting in death by strangulation.

The study also notes that there has never been any explanation of how the three bodies could have hung in the cells, undiscovered, for at least two hours, when the cells were supposed to be under constant supervision by roving guards and video cameras.