Two former prisoners said they had been forced to stand with their hands chained to the ceiling and their feet shackled in the isolation cells.
The men were blindfolded and handcuffed and their feet shackled before being taken out of the prison, the guards say.
Ortega sat quietly as the hearing began, his hands free but his feet shackled.
His feet were together like the feet of Christ on the cross-not nailed, however, but shackled to another ringbolt in the closet floor.
But then I ended up for three days in the state penitentiary - my feet and hands shackled.
His hands had been secured tightly behind his back and his feet shackled with manacles.
They were dragging a man in their midst, his hands and feet shackled, his face wrapped in a black cloth.
Two of Aradia's guards brought in a third man, shackled hand and foot.
Hobbling, his hands and feet shackled and chained, the man edged into the light.
The men arrived for their court hearing in casual street clothes, their hands and feet shackled.