[1] It has been alleged that some inmates are deliberately sent to incorrect destinations as an exercise of diesel therapy.
[2] Voluntary surrender at the prison where the inmate will serve his time is recommended as a way of avoiding diesel therapy.
[3] Diesel therapy is sometimes used on disruptive inmates, including gang members.
[4] The case of former U.S. Representative George V. Hansen[citation needed]involved accusations of diesel therapy, as did the case of Susan McDougal,[citation needed] one of the few people who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy.
[6][7] The term "diesel therapy," or "dumping,"[8] is also used to refer to a method by law-enforcement personnel of getting rid of troublesome individuals by placing them on a bus to another jurisdiction.