Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Guard Ma Jishan, male, around 50 years of age, is the head of Disciplinary Division 1 at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province. He officially entered the 2nd Branch of Mashanjia Women’s Labor Camp along with his subordinates in February 2006, as one of the head persecutors of Falun Gong practitioners. His ID number is 52008 on www.fawanghuihui.org (a list of evildoers who persecute Falun Gong practitioners).

Su Jing and Wang Naimin, heads at the 2nd Branch of Masanjia Women’s Forced Labor Camp, subjected practitioners to "three phases of strict control." Their plan proved to be a failure several months later.

Masanjia Labor Camp head Zhang Mingqiang saw Su Jing and Wang Naimin losing their zeal after waves of condemnation came from all around the world. Their tactics no longer had the previous effect, so he decided to assign deputy camp head Wang Wei, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong, to personally carry out the insidious tactics. Ma Jishan, head of Disciplinary Division 1, and Liu Yong, head of the Security Division, thought that the opportunity to obtain promotion by persecuting Falun Gong had arrived. They acted as the forerunners in the brutal effort, promising their superiors that they would "definitely achieve the goal."

Ma Jishan and Liu Yong led some of the guards who had arrived at the 2nd Branch of Masanjia Women’s Forced Labor Camp on February 23, 2006, to brainwash the practitioners held in Group 1 and 2. They used torture methods, including the Big Hang-Up, the Death Bed, solitary confinement, force-feeding with concentrated salt water, and unknown drugs. They would pry the practitioners' mouths open with a mechanical device, savagely beat the practitioners, shock them with electric batons, deprive them of sleep, and strip the women practitioners naked and throw them outside in the freezing cold. Many practitioners were injured and disabled as a result of torture.

The following is a partial summary of the tortures Ma Jishan subjected Falun Gong practitioners to:

Big Hang-up Torture Renders Practitioners Severely Injured or Disabled

Since February 2006, Ma Jishan has been in charge of a group of male guards who stay at Group 1 and 2. They have savagely tortured practitioners who refuse to renounce their belief in "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance." The Big Hang-up is among the most brutal torture methods. Both arms of the victims are stretched, one hand is handcuffed to a lower bunk bed, and the other hand is handcuffed to the metal ladder leading to the upper bunk. With one hand cuffed up high and the other one down low, the victim can neither stand up nor squat and is forced to stand close to the bed, bending forward. All body weight falls on the legs. The victim is handcuffed 24 hours a day. The victim’s hands are jointly handcuffed to the steel parapet on the bed during the night, and the victim cannot turn over in bed. When she gets up the next morning her arms are so painful and sore she can barely move them. This torture does not result in visible injuries but injures tendons in the wrist and brings the victims tremendous pain. Many practitioners developed whole-body edema after they were subjected to this torture. Their feet swelled so severely they could not fit them into their shoes. Some practitioners developed calluses on their wrists, and some went into convulsions. Some vomited nonstop, some lost consciousness, and some practitioners nearly lost all hand functions. About 40 practitioners suffered from this torture.

Practitioner Ms. Wang Ping suffered the Big Hang-up for 30 hours—until her wrists bled. Practitioner Ms. Liu Xiufen from Chaoyang City was subjected to the same abuse for 24 hours after refusing to do the prisoners' exercises. When she came back, her wrists were bleeding and the flesh was torn. Practitioner Ms. Long Sufen from Shenyang City was hung up for more than 30 days. She was unable to lift one arm afterwards.

Ma Jishan and Liu Yong hung up practitioner Ms. Wang Huinan from Shangjiahe Town, Xinbin, Fushun City, for 43 days between March 7 and June 2, 2006. Afterwards Ms. Wang could neither stand nor sit down, and she had to bend her back at all times. She wasn’t allowed to go to sleep until midnight and sometimes as late as 3:00 a.m. and was made to get up at 5:00 a.m. Ma Jishan played audiotapes with Falun Gong-slandering recordings. Ma Jishan, Liu Yong and Han Kai stretched Ms. Wang Huinan four times to the limit with this torture until she lost consciousness.

Beginning on August 30, 2006, Ma Jishan and Liu Yong led a large group of male guards from the Disciplinary Division and from the Security Division to carry out another round of brainwashing and torture. They used the Big Hang-up, the Death Bed, Nd force-feeding over a long period of time while prying open the practitioners’ mouths. They also tied the practitioners’ wrists with thin metal wires. They refused to let the practitioners eat or use the restroom during the Big Hang-up torture, forcing them to relieve themselves in their pants. Practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaoyan from Dalian City was stretched on two beds. One of her hands was handcuffed to the top of one bed and the other hand to the bottom of the other bed. She was tortured this way for three days straight.

"Freezing" Torture

Ma Jishan ordered the guards to take away all practitioners’ personal belongings in February 2006. Each practitioner was given a worn out, see-through quilt. More than 20 practitioners were locked in a room without heat in freezing temperatures. The room felt like an ice cellar. The guards couldn’t stand the cold, even though they wore heavy coats, pants, and boots, and they kept pacing back and forth [to keep their circulation going]. The practitioners were forced to stand still in the room, and many of them developed frostbite on their hands and feet. This torture lasted two months, during which the practitioners were forbidden to take showers or change their clothes. Ma Jishan personally stripped women practitioners of their coats and vests to make them suffer the cold.

The Death Bed Torture and Brutal Force-feeding

Ma Jishan told practitioner Ms. Xie Dewen to put her feet next to each other at 8:00 a.m. on May 1, 2006. She refused. Ma Jishan said, "Fine, just you wait!" A while later Ma Jishan tied her to the Death Bed, opened her mouth with a mouth-opener, wrapped a portion of the gagging device around her neck, and firmly pressed down on Xie Dewen’s cheeks. After a long time doctor Cao Yujie arrived and said, "It’s ready."

Ma Jishan said, "Don’t rush! Feed her slowly with a spoon."

Someone said later on that they had force-fed Xie Dewen for two hours. They didn’t remove the mouth-opener after the feeding. They fed her twice a day during holidays and three times a day during all other times.

During a force-feeding in the afternoon of May 2, 2006, Ma Jishan pried open Ms. Xie ’s mouth until the corners of her mouth split and blisters appeared inside her mouth. Doctor Chen Bing poured food into her mouth directly from a large bowl. Ma Jishan said to him, "No hurry! If you have other things to do, go ahead and take care of them. Any of us can do the feeding!"

Chen Bing fed her for a while, and then he ate some snacks saying, "I’ll go downstairs and take a walk." Ma Jishan took over the feeding and said, "I’ll fix you after the May 1 Holiday. I’ll tie you to a bed and leave you here!"

Ma Jishan and others also tied practitioner Ms. Zou Xiuju from Dalian City to a Death Bed and force-fed her congee three times a day. The guards manipulated the mouth-opener so the practitioner’s mouth was opened to the maximum extent and they often left it in place for a whole day at a time. Ma Jishan purposely adjusted the mouth-opener to distort the shape of the Zou Xiuju’s mouth in order to torment her. This torture lasted 23 days and one of Ms. Zou’s front teeth was knocked out.

Practitioner Ms. Long Shufen shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" on May 16, 2006. Li Mingdong, one of Ma Jishan's subordinates, tried to shove a mop into Long Shufen’s mouth but didn’t succeed. Ma Jishan pried open Ms. Long’s mouth with the mouth-opener, injuring her mouth in the process, and her mouth bled. When the mouth-opener was removed, the skin inside her mouth had been abraded, her mouth was swollen, and she drooled constantly.

Practitioners Ms. Shi Guirong, Ms. Liu Guiyuan and others from Shenyang City had their mouths injured through force-feeding. Practitioner Ms. Zhang Yanli refused to cooperate with the guards’ outrageous demands and refused to sign faked documents. As a result, Ma Jishan, Liu Yong and others tied her to the Death Bed for six hours.

Force-feeding with Unknown Drugs

Early in the morning on May 2, 2006, Ma Jishan ordered a doctor to force-feed practitioner Ms. Xie Dewen unknown drugs. They initially said they were anti-inflammatory drugs. When the drug started to work in her Ms. Xie asked, "What did you give me? My heart feels awful." Ma Jishan changed the story and said it was a drug for high blood pressure.

Ma Jishan, Gao Tianyun, and doctor Cao Yujie tied and hung up practitioner Ms. Xin Shuhua by her hands and one foot from a metal bed between 5:00 p.m. and midnight. They then tied her in a Death Bed, opened her mouth, and fed her a reddish-yellow drug. They were so rough during the process that Ms. Xin bled profusely from her mouth. One of her lower teeth fell out and some other teeth became loose. Ma Jishan shouted, "I can’t persecute your Teacher, so I’ll persecute you! I’ll make your gong [a form of energy obtained through Falun Gong practice] go to waste." Xin Shuhua was extremely weak from persecution and suffered tremendous pain as the handcuffs used to hold down her legs cut into the flesh. She had difficulty walking afterwards.

Ma Jishan also tortured Ms. Shi Guirong and other practitioners with the Big Hang-up, the Death Bed, and force-feeding. They opened the practitioners' mouths with the mouth-opener and fed them with the "No. 2 drug." Ma Jishan claimed as he fed the practitioners, "I’ll make you lose your gong!"

Ma Jishan and Liu Yong tied practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaoyan in the Death Bed and force-fed her drugs between August and September 2006. Doctor Cao Yujie fed her a nerve-damaging drug three times a day. Each time Ma Jishan brutally forced Ms. Wang’s mouth open, causing tremendous pain.

Savage Beating, Forced Kneeling, and Other Abuse

Ma Jishan handcuffed practitioner Ms. Xie Dewen to a table and a heating pipe on May 10, 2006, forcing her to squat with her back against the table. He also kicked her and violently yanked her hair. Then he cuffed her to two beds and stretched her to the limit each day.

Ma Jishan forced elder practitioner Ms. Yang Baoying to sit on a small stool. Ms. Yang, from Fuxin, was in her 60s. She was already suffering from pain and arthritis throughout her body from torture. She could not eat normally because her stomach and gastrointestinal tract were damaged from force-feeding. She was emaciated, but they berated her, slapped her across her face, beat and kicked her, forced her to stand against a wall, and handcuffed her.

Ma Jishan and his subordinates ordered practitioner Ms. Yan Chunjiao to kneel before them on April 29, 2006. She refused, and Ma Jishan kicked her right foot until her ankle was dislocated and swollen. She is crippled even to this day. The evildoers also forced her to wear a prisoner’s uniform and name badge and do manual labor. They refused to send her to get a physical exam at the hospital. Zhang Jun, one of Ma Jishan's subordinates, banged Ms. Yan Chunjiao’s head against a wall and hit her face until it was black and blue.

Ma Jishan, Liu Yong, and Wang Qi told practitioner Ms. Wang Huinan to kneel in a corner at 9:00 a.m. on April 24, 2006. She refused, and the officials kicked her to the ground many times. In the end they forced her to kneel by squeezing her with a table. Ma Jishan beat Ms. Wang cruelly many times. He slapped her face, pulled her hair, and kicked her.

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Liyan from Dandong refused to sign her name on a monthly appraisal form. As a result she was taken out, hung up, and tortured from morning to midnight. Practitioner Ms. Qiu Li from Fushun City was subjected to torture many times. Practitioner Ms. Chen Honglan from Benxi City was also brutally beaten for refusing to sign her name.

Ma Jishan spit on the practitioners, and sometimes he fanatically slapped their faces while grabbing their hair. He also kicked them.

Ma Jishan and Chen hit Dalian practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaoyan’s face with their fists in mid July 2006, which caused severe swelling on the left side. Even now she still has a bump near her cheekbone. Practitioner Ms. Wang Baokun shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" and was dragged out and tortured for one day and one night until her hands and feet became swollen.

Practitioner Ms. Yang Liwei Relentlessly Tortured

Practitioner Ms. Yang Liwei vomited frequently due to long-term persecution. She vomited nonstop during dinner at 6:00 p.m. on May 12, 2006, eventually vomiting brownish black blood. Ma Jishan didn’t stop persecuting her despite her condition. He took her to a classroom at the end of a long hallway across from the cafeteria. The windows and doors were covered with newspapers; more than 30 cartoon pictures slandering Falun Gong were plastered on the wall and blackboard. Ma Jishan handcuffed Ms. Yang to a heating pipe so she had to stand up. She continuously vomited black blood while Ma Jishan beat and kicked her. The torture lasted until 2:00 a.m.

Yang Liwei was handcuffed to two beds and stretched to the limit on May 14, 2006. Ma Jishan beat her because she refused to give up her belief. Ms. Yang vomited blood all over the beds. Ma Jishan said, "I’ll make you wake up by beating you!"

Ms. Yang Liwei resisted the persecution on May 16 by shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" Ma Jishan’s subordinate Li Dongming savagely beat her until her eyes and face were black and blue. She was dragged into a classroom where Ma Jishan put the mouth-opener in her mouth. She was very weak from enduring the persecution for a long time. The officials continued to torture her until she went into convulsions and eventually lost consciousness. She came to after undergoing lengthy acupuncture treatment. During this time guard Zhang Jun kept hitting her with the mouth-opener and also kicked her deformed hand saying, "Look at the shape [of your hand]." Ma Lishan handcuffed one of Yang Liwei’s hands to a heating pipe while she sat on the tile floor. He forced her to listen to audio recordings of slanderous propaganda against Falun Gong over and over.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhao Benyong from Longquanyi in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, was illegally imprisoned for five years and persecuted. On the day of his release from prison, 610 Office personnel took him to a brainwashing center in Chengdu City. Zhao Benyong's family members went to the relevant authorities to ask for his release, but to no avail. In the process, his mother and younger brother were illegally detained at the Bazhong Police Department of Sichuan Province.

During the five years Zhao Benyong was persecuted in Wumaping Prison, he persisted in his faith in Falun Gong. On January 31, 2007, his term ended. On February 1, 2007, the prison informed the 610 Office of Longquanyi, the community committee, and Beigandao Police Station. They planned to secretly fetch Mr. Zhao from the prison. Luckily, his family members arrived in time and demanded his release. The authorities then sent him and his family members back to the community committee, claiming that the committee would release Zhao Benyong there. However, when they reached the street committee, the district CCP Political and Legal Committee secretary, the manager, and other hatchet men forcibly separated Zhao Benyong from his family and took him to Chengdu City Brainwashing Center. They forbid him from seeing his family members, and they refused to tell his family members his whereabouts.

On the morning of February 5, Zhao Benyong's family members went again to the district government to demand his release. However, the police detained his mother and one younger brother. In the afternoon another younger brother was also taken away.

On February 6, his family members were released. The news indidated that Zhao Benyong was holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

Zhao Benyong graduated from Xinan University. His health was poor, so he started to practice Falun Gong in 1994 and attained good health as a result. However, after July 20, 1999, he was persecuted by the Aerospace Technical School affiliated to his university. In May 2001 he was forced to leave the school and live a homeless life to avoid being persecuted. The university ganged up with the authorities to remove his name from the school. On February 1, 2002, he was arrested by Shuangqiao Police Station in Chenghua District. He was then sentenced to five years by Chenghua District Court and sent to Wumaping Prison in Leshan City. All this was done without informing his family members. In prison he went on a hunger strike for as long as three months to protest the persecution. Sometimes he was locked up in a solitary cell, punished by being forced to sit or stand in the severe cold weather, and subjected to other forms of persecution.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fu Rufang, who used to work in Tongnan County Epidemic-prevention Clinic in Chongqing City, was detained in the 4th Group of Maojiashan Women's Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing City. She was often beaten by the prisoners assigned by guards to monitor her, and often she was covered with dark bruises all over her body.

1. Two Front Teeth Pried Out for Force-feeding

Because of gastritis, Fu Rufang didn't eat anything for two days and then ate a little rice congee. Nonetheless, the labor camp guard took the chance and arranged for drug offender prisoners to force feed her. They force-fed her for nearly two weeks with rice congee. Three times, during forced feedings, food got into her trachea, which almost killed her. Fu Rufang didn't cooperate during the force-feedings. The drug offenders purposely pried her two front bottom teeth out. At that time, they continued to force-feed her while her mouth was bleeding. Much of the blood and the congee spread over her face and dripped down to the ground. Prisoner Ding Feng threatened to pry out all of her teeth.

After force-feeding, they ordered Fu Rufang to wash the floor, but not her clothes that were covered with blood and congee. She was always covered with blood and food after each force-feeding but was not allowed to clean herself or wash her clothes. Every time she was ordered to change her clothes before the force-feeding and then change back. Since her own clothes were put away dirty and would be used the next time, it was hard to see what was the true color of her clothes. The clothes smelled bad and had to be thrown away after a while. Four pieces of clothing had been worn in such a way and had been thrown away. Fu's mouth and lips were injured by a wooden scoop and the fingers of the prisoners. Her mouth and lips were always covered with blood and her mouth and her face were swollen as well.

Moreover, when a prisoner had a finger scratched by Fu's teeth while prying open Fu's mouth, the head of the group Tan Qingyue berated Fu in front of the prisoner and blamed her for biting on purpose, which encouraged the prisoners to further persecute her. Fu's armpits had been pinched so badly that they were smashed and festered. Because her mouth was festered, she couldn't eat any salt for over a month. Fu Rufang was tortured until she was so thin that even the prisoners said she looked like a skeleton laying on the floor when she was sleeping, which scared them.

Fu Rufang needed someone to help her walk, or she needed to hold onto the wall to walk. In the summer, the bad environment in the small cell gave her prickly heat all over her body. She often had a high fever. However in such a poor conditions, she was still forced to do military drills. She couldn't stand straight and fell down several times. The prisoners said she was faking and kicked and boxed her to force her to stand. Later her feet and her lower legs were swollen so much they looked like an elephant's legs. Her whole body was swollen. Her fever was up to 39.5 degree C (103^o F). She was often forced to squat down for a long time and was not allowed to go to sleep until midnight.

2. Brainwashing

Police in the labor camp conducted forced brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners. Every Sunday the practitioners were required to write a report on their thoughts, and were not allowed to sleep until the report was approved. The practitioners were forced to read books or watch video programs that slandered Falun Gong, and were forced to write their comments. Once a month or every two months there was a so-called exposing and criticizing meeting.

Fu Rufang was forced to write a thought report every night. She was only given thirty minutes starting at 11:30 p.m. If it was not approved, she would be forced to redo it again, otherwise she would not be allowed to go to bed. She suffered such torture continuously until she finally wrote the three statements (repentance statement, guarantee statement, and "dissociation statement") and it was accepted and approved by the authorities. Then she was released from solitary confinement and sent to do forced labor.

3. Forced Labor

The practitioners were forced to do labor while they were supervised by the prisoners who were watching them. There was a work load quota for everyone except those monitoring prisoners. For a young person, the quota was to wrap 40 kg of candy per day. For those 45-50 years old, the quota was 3.75 kg per hour. For those 50-55, 3.25 kg per hour. For those between 55-60 years old, 3 kg per hour, and for those over 60, 2.75 kg per hour. The work day was about 10 hours long, and the quotas were not always the same. Guards could decrease the quota for someone whom they thought had good behavior or increase the quota if they didn't like someone. If the task was finished, the guards would assign more work. Those who couldn't finish their tasks were required to write self-criticizing statements and had their score deducted. Whenever there were any inspections by higher authorities, the candy and the related tools would be hidden and sometimes even the practitioners were sent away to avoid the inspectors. After the inspectors left, the work was resumed.

4. Guards were Afraid that the Persecution Would be Exposed

When the practitioners were being visited by their family members each month, guards were always around. The practitioners were not allowed to speak the truth or to cry. Occasionally when some practitioners said something or cried, they would be beaten, scolded or even punished afterwards. The practitioners' family members were not allowed to bring in any food. After the visit, guards would search the practitioner's body. If they found any food, the practitioner would be punished. If the practitioners' family brought clothes with a lining, the clothes would be soaked in water for a few weeks before being given to the practitioner.

Those practitioners who were detained in solitary confinement were not allowed visitors. Sometimes the guards invited the practitioner's family to visit but when they arrived, they were not allowed to visit unless they paid off the guards. That money was used to further persecute practitioners.

Guards did not allow practitioners to write letters clarifying the truth or telling the news of sickness. Such letters were intercepted.

Practitioners are not allowed to talk when working. If one spoke a sentence, one would be punished by being forced to do more than 100 squats or stand straight for two hours. If unable to squat, one would be punished and forced to do more hard labor. Those over 60 years old could be punished by being made to hand copy Order No. 23 (8 pages long) 20 times, 50 times or even 100 times within the given time. If not, more work would be assigned. Practitioners could be punished for any reason such as giving a wrong answer during name count, handwriting style or an unqualified thought report and so on.

5. Being Treated Badly Even When Sick

Guards never reduced the workload even when practitioners were sick. Practitioner Wang Aihua had an eye problem and was unable to make clothes. She was transferred to candy wrapping and was punished by being made to work one extra hour every day. She often suffered pains from a proliferation on her neck and lumbar vertebrae, and had no strength even to hold candy. Guards ordered her to clean restrooms.

Practitioner Zhang Xieyun became ill. She lost her voice and one of her legs was unable to support her weight, therefore she could not walk normally. Guards sent her to Daping Military Hospital to see the doctor at her own expense. She spent over 1000 yuan on a medical exam and was told that she faked her sickness. Guards scolded her when she was still in the hospital and punished her when she came back. Only after queries from other practitioners was her punishment lifted.

Practitioner Fu Rufang became ill in April 2006. When she saw that Zhang Xieyun had been rebuked for faking a illness and was punished, she didn't tell anyone about her own sickness. Later when she was found ill, she was asked to write a self-criticism. At that time, the skin on her lower abdomen looked purple and green and there were two hard tumors there. She was very thin and only weighed approximately 88 lbs. She was sent to the labor camp hospital first and later Daping Military Hospital for medical treatment. There was little improvement after spending more than 2000 yuan in medical fees. She was not told what problem she had. She often had pain in her lower abdomen and distension, and also discomfort in her heart. Afterwards water often ran out of her anus and she had the symptoms of shock whenever becoming tired. On April 29, when she had a medical exam in Daping Military Hospital, she heard the doctor telling the guards that her tumors might have a malignant pathological change and she needed to have CT scan. However this was not done because it would cost more than 1000 yuan. Guards Dai Wenjuan and Chen Yonglian talked to Fu Rufang and considered releasing her for medical reasons. However they changed the decision later. Team head Zuo Qianjin said to Fu Rufang, "Don't think about going home as long as you can still walk. Going home is to resist being 'transformed.' You should suffer since you have practiced Falun Gong..."

6. Guards Make Practitioners' Living Conditions Difficult

The time for restroom breaks was fixed - at 9:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. If one wanted to use the restroom at other than the routine time, one would be punished by being forced to clean public places for two or three days. Only those who were sick or over 60 were excepted. No one was allowed to use the restroom during meal time. Only five minutes was allowed in the restroom for those who were 20-30 years old. In the morning, only five minutes was allowed to wash the face with half a basin of water and use the restroom. At night, there was a 10 minute time limit with one basin of water. Twice a week, one would be allowed to have one bucket of water to wash one's body and wash clothes within 15 minutes. If it took even one minute longer, the practitioners would be punished. Young people would be punished by being made to clean public places, and older people would be punished by being made to hand copy Order No. 23. The water faucets in the restroom were often tied up and no one was allowed to turn them on, lest it be considered stealing. Most of the time one would not be able to wash in the restroom, and went directly back to work wrapping candy without washing their hands.

When making paper boxes, one would have their hands covered with paste. When it was time to gather for a meal, there was no time to wash the hands, and one had to directly take a steamed bun with their hands to eat. They were allowed only ten minutes or less to eat. Twelve, sixteen or even 18 people ate together with only half a basin of vegetables and about the same amount of rice or steamed buns. There was often just stewed Chinese cabbage without any cooking oil in it. Often the cabbage had not not been cleaned and sometimes rotten leaves were seen. On Wednesday and Saturday there would be some meat with the vegetables. Most of the meat was fatty and tough with hairs and was hard to eat. Guards claimed that the food was so good that meat was left after each meal. Some potatoes were rotten but were served anyway.

Fu Rufang was released in November 2006. She was extremely weak after suffering so much in the labor camp. She was supposed to be released earlier, however when her family came to get her, the labor camp refused to release her and claimed she was not "transformed" well. The labor camp demanded that her work unit continue supervising her closely after she was released.