Box (torture)

Use

• The technique was used by prisons in the Southern United States until late in the 19th century and as punishment during times of slavery.
• The technique, then known as the "sweat box", was used in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
• The North Vietnamese Army used the technique at the infamous Hanoi Hilton.
• The CIA claimed that Chinese government has used "extreme heat" and "sweating" against dissidents.
• Use of a "sweatbox" has also been reported as a method of punishment in North Korean Concentration Camps, notably in Kang Chol-Hwan's book The Aquariums of Pyongyang.
• In 2008, it was revealed that the U.S. military was detaining Iraqi prisoners in wooden crates, arousing concern of their use as hotboxes.
• The Tarrafal camp, in Cape Verde, used a small windowless shack as a form of torture against prisoners, most of them convicted of conspiring against Salazar's regime in Portugal.