This brutality included beating and kicking prisoners; gouging eyes; grabbing testicles; smashing faces into the ground or wall; deploying Taser guns, pepper ball guns, and other chemical agents; and order K9s to menace and bite prisoners.
Mark Fairhurst, the chair of the Prison Officers' Association, stated, "We should not be allowing prisoners in separation centres to access cooking facilities, so they have the resources and implements that can inflict violence on staff."