diesel therapy
n.— «Transit, better known as “diesel therapy” to the feds, is maybe the worst part of being incarcerated. Imagine being handcuffed with a chain around your waist securing the handcuffs to your stomach area. You can’t move your arms up and down or side to side. Your feet are shackled, limiting you to baby steps. Now get on a bus.» —“Diesel Therapy: Torturing Prisoners Legally Takes The Bus” by Seth M. Ferranti Vice Feb., 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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