[istjohn]

> Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

> She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

> “He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

> He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

0. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-14/green-card-holder...

[chgs]

Apologists don’t consider this torture. This type of treatment of innocent prisoners has been common for decades in America.

[Jolter]

It's torture even if applied to guilty people. But your point is valid, it's just "how to treat prisoners". Having no privacy on the toilet as a default is dehumanizing in itself but may not be torture, but sleep deprivation by strong lights and inadequate heating certainly is, according to most definitions of torture.