(n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was an extreme version of a technique Zuley used in Chicago: three people he sent to jail told the Guardian and allege in court documents that Zuley shackled them for hours to eyebolts in the wall of the precinct house at Belmont and Western avenues on Chicago’s north side.
(2) I can’t imagine any legitimate purpose for using eyebolts during an interrogation other than the necessary, temporary physical restraint of the detainee,” said Michael German, a former FBI agent.
(3) I don’t think there would ever be a good excuse” for restraining someone to an eyebolt for that long, said German, the ex-FBI agent.
(4) He was shackled to an eyebolt – a latch to secure prisoners’ cuffs or chains, like those found in many police precinct houses, but lower to the ground – and left alone for hours with music blasting.
(5) In conversations with the Guardian from jail, three other people Zuley sent to prison – people who insist upon their innocence – describe being shackled through eyebolts for hours on end to precinct walls, giving Zuley’s police work in Chicago echoes of his interrogation work at Guantánamo .
(6) Eyebolts, a feature in US police stations before Guantanamo, are not Zuley’s invention.
(7) another detective, Tony Villardita, said at trial that the eyebolt to which Griggs was cuffed was three or four feet above the ground.
(8) ‘Basically,’ she told the Guardian from prison, ‘they just tortured me.’ Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian The addict, the ex-girlfriend and the turtleneck: shackling and threats at the precinct Benita Johnson said she spent more than 24 hours with her hand chained to the wall through a metal eyebolt, starting in the pre-dawn hours of April 15, 1995, listening to Zuley tell her she had a fateful choice to make.
(9) (One of the detectives involved, Ray Kaminski, testified that Johnson talked with Dillon, who produced the written statement, after six hours with police – and further testified that he cuffed Johnson to the eyebolt, where she remained for at least that long.)
(10) Three people Zuley sent to jail told the Guardian and allege in court documents that he shackled them for hours to eyebolts in the wall of a precinct.
(11) Eyebolts that remain at Guantánamo, viewed by the Guardian over the years, are often in the floor.
(12) Slahi recalled: “I was hurt like never before; it wasn’t me any more, and I would never be the same as before.” He also remembered a voice he associated with Zuley telling the foreigners: “We appreciate everybody who works with us, thanks, gentlemen.” Eyebolts, meant to prevent suspects from harming themselves or their interrogators, can also be used for shackling a detainee’s hands.