The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

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These abuses are outlined in a new report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, which is highly critical of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ use of restraints on prisoners.