They were subjected to severe physical abuse, including beatings and torture. Confessions were sometimes extracted through beatings and torture. Prisoners were regularly subject to torture, beatings and humiliation. These efforts were executed through assaults, beatings, stabbings, and manual strangulation. The officers retaliated, subjecting him to beatings and other punishments. This includes electrocution, brutal beatings and sexual assault. Beatings and physical torture were said to be common. Allegations about beatings and violence were widespread. She oversaw daily roll calls, assignments for "Aufseherinnen" and punishments such as beatings and floggings. Pregnant women could be subject to beatings and torture. Dixon said that the prisons featured corporal punishment such as whipping, beatings, and isolation. Those not gassed died of starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings. Her husband was subjected to repeated beatings. Those arrested typically experienced beatings or other violence. After five days of beatings and torture, Majorian was beheaded near the river Iria.