] Beds were placed at a 20 degree angle, making them
] near-impossible to sleep on, and the floors of the 6ft by
] 3ft cells was scattered with bricks and other geometric
] blocks to prevent prisoners from walking backwards and
] forwards, according to the account of Laurencic's trial.
]
] The only option left to prisoners was staring at the
] walls, which were curved and covered with mind-altering
] patterns of cubes, squares, straight lines and spirals
] which utilised tricks of colour, perspective and scale to
] cause mental confusion and distress.
]
] Lighting effects gave the impression that the dizzying
] patterns on the wall were moving.
]
] A stone bench was similarly designed to send a prisoner
] sliding to the floor when he or she sat down, Mr Milicua
] said. Some cells were painted with tar so that they would
] warm up in the sun and produce asphyxiating heat.

] Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and Itten, as
] well as the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel and his
] friend Salvador Dali, were said to be the inspiration
] behind a series of secret cells and torture centres built
] in Barcelona and elsewhere, yesterday's El Pais newspaper
] reported.
]
] Most were the work of an enthusiastic French
] anarchist, Alphonse Laurencic, who invented a form of
] "psychotechnic" torture, according to the research of the
] historian Jose Milicua.

This is wild...

] According to the prosecutors who put Laurencic on trial
] in 1939, a jail in Murcia in south-east Spain forced
] prisoners to view the infamously disturbing scene from
] Dali and Bunuel's film Un Chien Andalou, in which an
] eyeball is sliced open.

NO NO NO NO NO NO OH MY GOD NO NO NO NO NO