Stress position

A stress position, also known as a submission position, places the human body in such a way that a great amount of weight is placed on just one or two muscles. For example, a subject may be forced to stand on the balls of his feet, then squat so that his thighs are parallel to the ground. This creates an intense amount of pressure on the legs, leading first to pain and then muscle failure.

Forcing prisoners to adopt such positions is a method of torture used for extracting information or as a punishment.

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 4)

The fourth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered on NBC on September 26, 2004, and ended May 25, 2005. The series remained in its time slot of Sundays at 9 PM/8c, but the season finale episode "False-Hearted Judges" aired on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 10 PM ET/9 CT.

Stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, and Courtney B. Vance returned for the fourth season. Around mid-season, star Vincent D'Onofrio fainted twice from exhaustion, once on set and again at his home. Writers René Balcer and Elizabeth Benjamin won an Edgar Award in the category Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay, for the episode "Want". Almost three months before the fourth season finale, it was announced Chris Noth would join the show in the fifth season, alternating episodes with D'Onofrio, due to his health issues at the time.

Production

NBC renewed Law & Order: Criminal Intent for a fourth season on May 12, 2004. On Sundays during the 2003-2004 broadcast network TV season, Law & Order: CI was undefeated in its third season against regular competition in 18–49 and was the only NBC regular series to win that time slot in the last eight years.

Stress Position (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)

"Stress Position" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It marks the return of Mike Logan (Chris Noth) to the Law & Order franchise; the character appeared in the original Law & Order from 1990 to 1995.

The episode was inspired by the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse scandal.

Plot

When a Federal Corrections Officer recently hired by the New York City Fire Department is murdered, Goren and Eames investigate the prison where he worked to search for possible suspects. The investigation takes a shocking turn when the detectives discover that prison guards are torturing prisoners who have not been charged with a crime. After a nurse there is questioned, she complains to her boyfriend - Detective Mike Logan, who was stationed on Staten Island after punching a city councilman many years ago. Logan joins the investigation, and they find out that a group of prison guards are not only abusing prisoners, but also smuggling drugs for the Mafia; they killed the guard because he found out what they were doing.