Former employees at Guantanamo Bay have told the New York Times that detainees there were regularly subjected to harsh and coercive treatment that often amounted to torture. Near naked detainees were sometimes shackled to the floor in freezing cold rooms, while soldiers shined bright strobe lights in their face and blasted screamingly loud rock and rap music. Such sessions could go on for up to 14 hours, with few breaks. One official told the Times, “It fried them. They were very wobbly. They came back to their cells and were completely out of it.” The employees reported the harsh treatment quickly ended earlier this year after the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became public.