Talk:Jim Jones

Moved out unsourced claims about the punishment techniques
''According to Layton, one of the ways that members of the cult were controlled was by being sent to the "extended care unit". "Brave people who spoke out against the atrocities in Jonestown were taken to the 'medical unit' and put on coma inducing drugs," she said. These drugs included thorazine, sodium pentathol, chloral hydrate, demerol, and valium. Some of these people were used by Jones as sex slaves. "Others had a python wrapped around their neck. Children who cried about wanting to go back to the States were lowered into a dark well at night. One man was forced into 'the box' underground where he stayed for days/weeks." "The Box" was a punishment devised by Jones involving a 6-by-4-by-3-foot (1.83 m × 1.22 m × 0.91 m) plywood coffin-shaped box in which a person was confined and held underground while they were constantly berated and reprimanded for their perceived slights against the cult.''

These claims are not found in Layton's affidavit, even though the passage has two footnotes pointing to them as a source (and cites no other sources). If anything, it is odd that she doesn't mention them there, since Layton is otherwise very critical in the affidavit and includes a lot of damning details, and yet the overall picture that emerges from her description seems noticeably milder than this. It's possible that she has made these claims somewhere else, so I googled part of the quote, but I only find it in four other pages on the web and they don't seem like authoritative sources - they look as if the information there might be copied from Wikipedia. I have moved the claims out of the article so hopefully someone can source them, if they are correct. 87.126.21.225 (talk) 13:18, 7 October 2023 (UTC)