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Allowed to work while shackled to the bed

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Class for bad students.

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Officer, can you change the TV channel? It's so boring...

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THE SPECIAL SHACKLE-SHUFFLE IN PRISON STRIPES (PART II)

A new prisoner who is placed in full restraints for the first time in a way has to learn to walk again, because he is not yet used to wearing leg irons. And walking in leg-irons isn’t easy, regardless of the length of the connecting chain. You have to get used to that. This results in the famous shackle shuffle, which can be admired in many video clips. About that special kind of shackle-enforced shuffling I will talk in this blog another time. In this episode I would like to briefly focus on an aspect that mostly receives less attention. That is the rest of the prisoner's body position, as a result of being forced to wear the special leather restraining-belt with handcuffs.

Take a good look at this photo; I give a detail-view of it below. If you look closely, you will first see that the inmate, already clad in prison stripes, has slumped shoulders and holds his handcuffed hands in the middle of his crotch. That is of course a rather unnatural position, but the cuffs leave him no choice. Thanks to being attached to the belt, his hands not only pull his arms tightly down, but also tightly inwards, where you would normally let them hang relaxed at the side. You can of course hold them up, but that quickly becomes quite tiring. Especially those with relatively short arms have little room for maneuver, their arms will be just stretched from shoulders to belt.

Holding the hands far forward is also not possible due to the D-Ring. You perhaps can bend them a little forward on both its sides until the chain is taut against the arch of the D, but you can't keep that up indefinitely either. Result: you quickly just let them hang down.

However, in that case they will constantly press against your crotch and rub with every footstep. To avoid that, as this can quickly become irritating, you unconsciously adjust your posture. You pull in your stomach to make a bit room for your cuffed hands and you also bend your upper body slightly forward to make even more room below, and therefore you automatically stick your butt out back.

That is what you can see in this photo: as a result of the full restraints, the prisoner walks slightly bent forward all the time, and therefore automatically with his butt clearly pushed back and up. That is a very humiliating position to have to move around in or to enter the courthouse, especially if there are also many spectators or even photographers from the press present during such a prep walk to capture your arrival. Such a constantly visibly raised butt then gives you an extra feeling of great vulnerability, because in that case it is inevitably captured forever for a large audience in their pics too.

The leg-irons obviously will make that gait even more uncomfortable for the prisoner, as they force him to take careful steps and often look at the ground, which of course causes his butt to stick out in this humiliating way even further.

If you pay attention, you can also see it in many other prisoners walking in full restraints, this position that expresses powerlessness: the stomach drawn in, the upper body leaning slightly forward, the butt back and up. Sometimes more, sometimes less - a prisoner will always try to minimize the attention his bottom might attract, but the discomfort of his restraints often leaves him little choice. Here are a few examples, with the same psychologically uncomfortable body position as that of our main hero.

In the pic above, the protruding butt is somewhat hidden by the swinging end of the belt, but you can see from the prisoner's body position that all in all it is sticking out considerably. The triptych of the next photo is actually even more telling. Right from the front, in the right photo, at first sight nothing seems to be 'wrong'.

But in the middle photo, straight from the side, where the shackled inmate is taking long strides (the chain between his ankle cuffs is stretched to its maximum length), you can see, as a result of the tight fastening of the belt, a slightly rounded upper back above that, and below that the prominent arched bulge of his protruding buttocks. The jumpsuit accentuates that extra. The buttocks also look good in the photo on the left, from the back.

When wearing this kind of restraint-belt, the tendency to raise the butt is probably stronger in average than when wearing a belly chain, because the latter allows just a little more freedom of movement. As a rule, it is easier to slide it up a little further, unless it’s applied in an idiotic tight way, but then it will pinch you, and carrying it thus can become very painful and even unhealthy.

That risk is much lower with such a leather belt. It quickly becomes stuck. It can actually always be quite tight without causing any danger, and if it is placed exactly at the narrowest zone of the waist as tight as possible, it is virtually immobile due to its width.

This tightly applied belt also contributes to accentuating the inmates bum itself, because it firmly constricts the prisoner's abdomen and back from all sides. Due to that pressure, it forces the wearer to both hold in his stomach and arch his back slightly, and thus it creates automatically a concave lower back directly above the buttocks, thanks to which the already prominently protruding butt is even further accentuated. In most cases it therefore will be very difficult, or at least fatiguing, for an inmate shackled like this to prevent his bum from extending backward and upward.

You can also study that effect very well in this group photo - all four inmates of course wearing the same prison uniform (a black-and-white striped two-piece, with open plastic sandals, although not all in the same color!), and restrained in the same way , including leg-irons (recognizable in case of the second man from the right).

The enforced protruding butt is clearly visible on the leftmost prisoner, who looks back. The belt with the cuffs clearly pulls in his stomach. His shirt hides the effect a little, because it naturally stands out a bit wider, thereby partly concealing the butt part of the trousers that protrudes towards the back. If he would wear a jumpsuit, his literally outstanding butt would come in full view.

The second guy stands almost still, then it is easier to keep your back straight again. The third struggles to take the step up, and holds his hands very convulsively against his chest, as if he indeed wants to hold his butt at all costs, with that bloody photographer nearby. The fourth also just steps up, automatically straightening his back slightly.

The effect is also visible in this video-clip, during the regrettably rather short moments the inmate going to court is shown from the side. You can see his buttocks moving in a slightly unnatural position.

As mentioned: whether or not there is an effect probably depends largely on the arm length - and possibly also on the prisoner's own choice: to tolerate the discomfort of hands pressing against the crotch rather than the humiliating position of the helplessly pronounced buttocks raised up.

Here is a tableau of a whole series of prisoners who have all been strapped with the belt and the handcuffs. They all struggle with the question of what the best posture is. As a result, they all walk slightly differently than they would without the belt, with their butts further back - some more, some less. Some inmates are better at preventing this than others.

The two outer prisoners in the bottom row, seen from the front, are clearly making an effort to suppress the natural tendency to just stick their butts out in this situation. The two next to it, on either side of the large square detail shot in the middle, are equipped with a belly chain instead of a belt; for them the effect is less strong, but still present.

However in the case of the inmate on the pic we started with, that ass must really stick out very, very humiliatingly far to the rear. Comparing his posture to that of many others, in his case it must result in an extra pronounced upward standing bum. He struggles more than the others with finding the least awkward and embarrassing position while walking. In the photo at the top right, he has just gotten off the car and is still trying to walk upright and not give in to the natural tendency to bend over because of the belt. Walking like that isn't easy, as his concentrated, pained look shows. In the photo above left he therefore actually lets it all go, and his butt promptly shoots back and up.

At the same time he still seems to be trying frantically to suppress this with all force while climbing the steps - his gaze is still very tense - because such an emphatic presentation of your bottom in the context of the homosocial environment of a male prison quickly has a connotation of sexual submissiveness and sexual availability. His deeply felt degrading posture, and this is rather exceptional, for that reason is even noticeable from the front.

Finally: have a look again on the clip i gave a link to at the last entry ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vzE4JSmzLw) . Between 6:00 and 6:15 you see the inmate entering court from the side (see the bad technically bad, but clear video-still inserted here). This makes his buttocks stand out well - and because his upper body has been pulled forward by the belt and handcuffs, it is now clearly visible how he cannot prevent them from protruding very vulnerable far back, and how he is forced to emphatically present them in this humiliating situation to the already waiting photographer.

To be continued......

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THE SPECIAL SHACKLE-SHUFFLE IN PRISON STRIPES (PART I)

Many new prisoners have to wear their future striped prison uniform already in the courtroom, and also appear before the judge in heavy shackles. 'Full restraints' are often prescribed for every suspect, certainly during transport from jail to court, but also often during the trial, to prevent aggression or a panicky escape attempt after the judge has imposed a significant number of years of incarceration. Sometimes the cuffs are limited to handcuffs and leg-irons that are then connected to each other by a vertical chain, as in the first photo above.

The two most common versions of full restraints are the belt and the belly chain, both combined with separate leg-irons (sometimes a connection chain to the shackles however might be added for extra security, but it's not an integral part of the system as such).

The latter is the system shown here in both the next pics. With such a belly chain, the handcuffs are attached to a chain that goes around the prisoner's waist and is locked somewhere at the back with a padlock, out of reach of the prisoner. The handcuffs can consist of two separate ones on the side (the five inmates on the pic underneath), or of a set of police cuffs in the middle of the front (the two inmates on the pic above), in the second case regularly extra secured with a so called black box. About that special system and about the belly chain in general another time. As you can see, all inmates in each case are wearing exactly the same striped uniform (two-piece above, jumpsuit underneath) and are exact;y shackled the same way. In prison all inmates are equal.

In the case of a leather belt, the handcuffs almost always form a set that is attached to the belt in the middle front. Only very occasionally do you come across photos in which a handcuff is attached to a D-ring on both sides. This can be seen in a photo that I reblogged a little earlier. Here is another one; underneath it is a good pic of an inmate wearing the belt with handcuffs in front, so the usual way.

Such a restraint-belt is in fact a turned leather belt, now with the buckle at the back. The new front has a very sturdy D-ring, through which the belt just fits. On the inside of the belt, the straight vertical bar of the D is held in place by an additional piece of leather, which is stapled to the belt with rivets. This means that the D-Ring is firmly secured and cannot be moved to the left or right, and this also applies to the handcuffs attached to it. Even in the unlikely event that the wearer manages to tear off that stapled piece of leather, the D-Ring remains connected the belt, as its vertical bar is at the inside.

Here are some pics of my new belt, outside and inside:

Then the handcuffs. These are not attached to the front of the D-ring, they also go through it. Very simple: after the first handcuff has been clicked around the prisoner's wrist, the second handcuff is pulled through the ring while still open and then clicked around the other wrist. Because an arm is usually attached to such a wrist, this creates a closed circuit. Once both handcuffs are locked, the prisoner can no longer pull them 'back' through the D-ring to free himself from being restrained by it to the belt.

The ultra-short chain further limits the freedom of movement for the hands to an absolute minimum: with just a few centimeters of movement back and forth, the prisoner irrevocably bumps into the D-Ring with either one or the other cuff. This is indeed only possible with handcuffs that are connected by such a connecting chain (top photo). For hinged cuffs (bottom photo), the hinges are too high to fit through the D-Ring. They cannot be made 'flatter' as can be done with the handcuffs themselves by opening them.

At the end of part I, here is the link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vzE4JSmzLw) to a very instructive clip, which from 4:15 clearly shows how a new detainee, who has just been dressed in prison stripes, is first put on the foot cuffs and then the belt with handcuffs. In this case, they have already been inserted through the D-ring before they are locked, and are therefore already hanging on both sides of the D-ring, waiting for the prisoner's wrists. The camera zooms in especially when the handcuffs are being placed on, and then holds the result for a while, while the prisoner himself tries out his minimum room for maneuver.

I just show four stills taken from that video-clip here.

To be continued......

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A few days ago my new prison equipment did arrive - original American handcuffs and leg-irons of Smith & Wesson; the leather waistbelt to fix the handcuffs to was made after the official model by a leather tailor just around the corner. Ready for court appearance in my black-and-white striped prison jumpsuit like this tough guy now!

And here is already my first shackled walk at home....

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How did you get interested in prison

That's not a simple question. I've that interest already since i was a teenager, so decades ago. Al lot of pics and movies helped to raise my interest. What is appealing to me in the first place is the abundant use of shackles (so bondage-fetish), then the prison uniform (prison stripes, reducing you to a number), then the discipline and harsh environment.

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I wonder if this indeed is rubber. Would be a very interesting idea, rubber prison stripes, when you have to do hard labor in the mud.

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The right kind of solid and sturdy padlock to fix the belly-chain around the waist of a new inmate. For sure he will be aware of its weight. As it should be. Safety first!

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The leg-iron walk. Always a nice sight and a nice sound!

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Walking in shackles in your new orange prison uniform to your cell for the first time. After which solid door will you find your new home?

Nice picture

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Six students in court for trial because of a food fight. Just a couple of moments earlier you were still walking around freely in your jeans and t-shirt, then suddenly you were forcibly put in prison stripes and for the first time in your life you felt the cold, hard steel of your new handcuffs clicking around your wrists, after that attached to a belly-chain. And presumbly this kind of leg-irons were waiting for you too....

Красивые парни. И жизнь у них теперь будет очень “красивая”. Вряд-ли они о такой мечтали. Теперь в их жизни будет много “красивой” одежды, и много “красивых украшений” на руках и ногах. 

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That's indeed not so simple, to sign your guilty plea that will land you many years behind bars, when you're already handcuffed....Especially if you before entering the courtroom have already been safely chained up. You then have to lash to that tight belly-chain around your waist, to which your handcuffs are attached, to be able to make the obligatory scribble. Well, get used to it. You will be able to do this better after a few times. Practice makes perfect.

By the way, you look great as a new inmate in your prison stripes. That black-and-white jumpsuit, neatly buttoned up to the top snap, really suits you! You will get used to wearing it for the years to come soon!

p.s. A special tip when watching this clip: play it at a lower speed for a moment. When the inmate is raising his cuffed hands to sign, in a split of a second also the (until then hidden) black box, that makes his handcuffs so inflexible, becomes visible, just like the padlock, that fixes them to his belly-chain. It's a really an unusually thick and heavy padlock, a solid block of steel, swinging back and forth between his wrists, he definitely feels its substantial weight all the time. They're clearly not taking any chances here that he might break his bonds.

This other inmate even got a bit of help by his lawyer when he had to sign a paper while his handcuffed wrists were secured in a black-box.

Curtis Green

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Yes, it's great to walk around like this in the street for the first time in the prison stripes you will wear from now on, with your nice new handcuffs attached to your belly-chain. And do I hear the great sound of the short chain between your leg-irons each time that it hits the har street tiles? Indeed, keep smiling!

strips and smiles :)

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The videoclip to the pic i just reblogged

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20-year-old Kevin Schuler was accused of killing an elderly couple. For his court appereance he had to wear his black and white #jumpsuit #uniform, #handcuffs with waist chain and black box (hands in stacked position) and #legirons. See the video: https://youtu.be/_tHrmYORmWg #juvie #prisoner #inmate #juvenile #juvenilejustice #younginmates https://www.instagram.com/p/B1rjf-ZCL5p/?igshid=dblqosjltc8r