Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s government is asking the provincial court to penalize an Anishinabe man for allegedly breaching court rules following the publication of information and video from inside a youth jail showing staff immobilizing him with a full body restraint device while he wept, hyperventilated and asked for death.
The August 2010 internal jail video captured several moments inside Regina’s Paul Dojack Youth Centre. According to the video and files obtained by CBC News, Matthew Michel, then 15, was bound for two hours in a device called the Wrap, which kept his body restrained in a forward sitting position at a near 45-degree angle with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Moe’s government is asking the Court of King’s Bench to impose a “substantial penalty” against Michel following reporting by CBC News about his treatment while in the youth correctional system, according to a recent notice of application filed in court.
Saskatchewan claims in the court filing that the “videos, pictures and documents” used in reporting by CBC News came “from the materials that Saskatchewan disclosed” as part of litigation filed by Michel against the provincial government.
Yeah, I just watched it. How does it strain muscles? Like, I fully believe the dude was not having a good time (and Sask. is being a giant asshole asking for the case thrown out) but I don’t get it.
It puts an enormous amount of weight on two specific muscles. Those muscles are not meant to bear much weight for extended periods, so pain continually increases. There can be temporary damage to the muscles, but permanent damage can’t really happen, so it’s ideal for torturing people when you don’t want any evidence.
Oh, okay. It really looks like a chair, but obviously I haven’t tried it. Which muscles, out of curiosity?
I guess it becomes a problem when they over tight It and also leave the person in it for a long time. Apparently they left him in there for multiple hours. He must have had massive muscle cramps