A horrific new DOJ Inspector General report details how federal prison guards are chaining inmates to beds and chairs for weeks at a time, which has resulted in severe injuries and death. For example, one inmate suffered injury requiring the amputation of part of the inmate’s limb after being kept in restraints for over 2 days. Another inmate appears to have been tortured to death. According to the DOJ-OIG report, that unnamed inmate was restrained for more than two days. Then, he was released for two hours—only to be pepper-sprayed and returned to his restraints for another five hours before he was found dead. Other inmates were placed in “ambulatory restraints”—whichare defined as “approved soft and hard restraint equipment which allow the inmate to eat, drink, and take care of basic human needs without staff intervention”—for weeks on end.