by Ali Papademetriou

Handfuls of disabled travelers have filed complaints against the Transportation Security Administration in Arizona.

According to records from 2012, the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport received 26 complaints, all in relation to the TSA performing inappropriate and humiliating screenings on disabled citizens.

It was reported that last year’s amount of complaints is twice the amount of the national average.

The Arizona Republic was the first to report on the TSA complaints, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, with its kickoff story being on an 82-year-old, wheel-chair-bound lady with breast cancer who was taken into a back room by TSA officials. They removed not only her shirt and bra, but also her prosthesis for examination.

“At her age and physical capability she posed absolutely no risk whatsoever to anyone’s safety and should not have been subjected to such invasive and (undignified) treatment…This sort of degrading treatment is more appropriate for prisoners,” her granddaughter wrote in a formal complaint.

More documents from the FIA displayed that the complaints even more-than-doubled from 2011 to 2012, clearly showing that the number of complaints just keep increasing.