This is a worthy topic for those who may soon be in the position of the detainees. Some accounts say that a fair number of the detainees are in NYC. If that is so, then prisoner treatment is quite harsh, not only by the guards but by magistrates and the US Attorney's Office. Defense attorneys are kept on a very, very short lease despite complaints of unfair treatment of their clients and themselves. These procedures were described in exquisite detail during the USA v. bin Laden et al trial earlier this year: http://cryptome.org/usa-v-ubl-dt.htm Use the search on Cryptome to find the transcripts describing the comb attack. The harsh treatment appears to have been the cause of one prisoner attacking a guard (reputedly a soft-heart) with a sharpened comb, blinding the man in both eyes and causing permanent brain damage. The treatment then got worse, and likely continues for new detainees. In the case of the deceased Pakistani in New Jersey's Hudson County jail: that pen is well-known for its brutal treatment of non-Mafia prisoners, especially if they are colored any shade other than vomit, and the Paki may have been taken out by the guards and or other prisoners in patriotic fervor, or just as a result of the usual racist sadism. Most federal, state and city jail guards hereabouts are about the same quality as airport security personnel, and get their kicks abusing prisoners, lying about it, and getting winked at by judges and prosecutors. 24 x 7 tapes regularly disappear in case of an incident. If airport security is federalized watch your carass even more than before terrorism became an excuse for suicide by cop.