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An earlier investigation into the facility revealed that officers had made “sport” of tormenting mentally ill inmates, including forcing inmates into a specially rigged, scalding hot shower as punishment for unruly behavior.

Jenrick condemned the plans as a "recipe for carnage" and accused the government as being "okay with criminals terrorising our streets and tormenting our country".

He predicts that in America, authoritarianism would “degrade men without tormenting them. ... The will of man is not shattered but softly softened, bent, and guided.”

She sneers clever quips at the tormenting cops.

Forty years after William Pynchon’s books were burned in Boston, the nearby Salem witch trials exploded, with the state murdering 14 women and five men and tormenting nearly 200 others for demonic sorcery.