One jail inmate, clad only in boxer shorts and socks, was handcuffed to a wall for up to 11 hours. Another was cuffed to the wall for as many as eight or nine hours, causing bleeding and severe pain to his wrists. They were among dozens of inmates at North County Correctional Facility who were chained to the wall with their hands behind their backs, half-naked or even fully naked, sometimes with their feet shackled to the floor, as jail officials waited for them to expel contraband from their bodies. Corrections experts say the practice is improper and inhumane. But at NCCF, a maximum-security jail in Castaic run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, it was spelled out in writing...
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