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You haven't flown the newer smaller aircraft have you. Flew Continental last year. I'm 5'1". I had almost as much room in my F14 that I had in that plane, and there were 50 other passengers. You don't want to be around a screaming prisoner even when they're in restraints. On the drugs, if they're being administered by a nurse, I'm not sure where the danger is.
teagen,
I've flown every type of passenger aircraft except SST's. We all know about the accommodations. I've been around longer than you and I remember when they served liquor at no cost, and you could smoke. Now you got to pay for a bag of chips and soda.
Prisoners are transferred all over the world and I'm willing to bet that the majority of them aren't callously drugged except when absolutely necessary and not to the extent that these people were. If a U.S. prisoner was treated like that, it would probably come up in his trial and penalties would be assessed to the law enforcement entities. But since these people have no recourse to even complain, who's going to know?
I bet if you were treated that way by a "friendly" country, we'll be able to hear your howls from wherever you're held.