The cells should amount to solitary confinement and absolutely NO contact should be allowed among the inmates. Cells include a bunk, toilet, sink, and fold down writing area (although a clip-board could suffice)--NOTHING else! Definitely NO items such as T.V.'s, stereos, tape players, (etc.) are allowed!

The inmates spend a minimum of 24 hours and possibly a (normal) maximum of 72 hours in the cell prior to his sentence being carried out and approximately another 24 hours afterward. During this time, the only contact allowed would be with guards bringing meals or doing routine checks.

If, when it comes time to take the prisoner out of the cell and walk them to the area where their sentence will be carried out, they have to be forcibly restrained, they should be handcuffed and then left alone in their cell for at least an hour, then revisited by the officer, whose job it would be to point out the utter futility of resistance and the more serious consequences which further resistance would produce.

If the inmates infraction was more serious, the inmate were chained to a cell wall. Probably the most fearsome punishment entailed by a stay in the disciplinary cell is the “disciplinary bed”. It consists of a horizontal metal “shackle board” – a bare metal plank laid flat and supported by four low legs, and equipped with a set of handcuffs by which the prisoner is secured to each corner. As the victim lays spread-eagle on the metal plank, the slightest discomfort will gradually evolve into a tormenting pain.

The use of chain and fetters administered as a punishment – rather than as a temporary measure of restraint – is the standard practice in prisons.