This is what our government has come up with to keep Bradley Manning Safe?

[kpete]

Seeking Bradley Manning's 'smock'

(Ferguson Safety Products founder Lana) Speer said her company’s smocks are made out of a “backpack-type material that was the strongest stuff we could find that could be washed.” She was also blunt about the items being far from fashionable.


The Defense Department wants you to know: Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the WikiLeaks suspect, is no longer being required to sleep naked.

He now has what officials are calling "a garment." Manning and his lawyer call it "a smock."

Speer said the smocks are sometimes used when jail or prison guards see signs an inmate is suicidal. The twist in Manning's case is that he claims he's not and Navy psychiatrists appear to agree. The prevention-of-injury watch Manning is on, and the special rules for sleeping, were implemented by brig commanders without the consent of the psychiatric team

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Seeking_Bradley_Mannings_smock.html?showall

[Angry Dragon]

1. The Smurf suit

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Thank God that America is being kept safe from the frightening PFC Manning.

Who knows what horrible depredations of embarrassment he might commit on our defenseless country and helpless bureaucrats if he were allowed to wear clothes.

[DirkGently]

3. Wonder if they're trying to make him suicidal, by insisting that he's suicidal.

[EFerrari]

4. And if this is standard practice, why did it take them so long to do it? nt

[tekisui]

5. I could totally kill myself in that.

[Solly Mack]

6. k/r

...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. We used those at the juvenile detention center...

...for the kids who were a harm to themselves. They are suicide proof. there is a sleeping bag type thing that covers the mattress that goes with it that is also suicide proof. It is not inhumane. It is to keep them from hurting themselves.
Duckie