Colorado’s prisons must reform their use of metal restraints on mentally ill inmates in the coming four years under a new bill signed into law Tuesday regulating a practice that one lawmaker likened ...

Two padded restraint chairs are fulfilling their purpose at the Orangeburg-Calhoun Detention Center, even though they haven't been used, center Director Willie Bamberg said Tuesday. The $1,200 chairs ...

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Monday released the incident report into the death of Duval County Jail inmate Charles Faggart. The incident that led to Faggart’s death happened Monday, April 7.

Colorado legislators advanced a bill Tuesday to limit the use of physical restraints on inmates in acute mental health crises, sidestepping a disputed price tag and avoiding what one lawmaker ...

A family is demanding murder charges for corrections workers involved in the death of a 25-year-old man after his time in a Montgomery County, Ohio, jail restraint chair. Family and attorneys for ...

Earlier this week, a Monroe County grand jury indicted seven people in the death of 74-year-old Lester Isbill. Following those presentments, District Attorney Stephen Hatchett released a statement on ...

ST. LOUIS — There are renewed demands for answers surrounding the death of a detainee at the St. Louis City Justice Center, just weeks before he was set to stand trial for murder. According to the St.

Inside the Montgomery County Jail, guards taunted, belittled and threatened Isaiah Trammell, a 19-year-old who had autism spectrum disorder. Deputies on the overnight shift told Trammell he was ...

ST. LOUIS — The family of a man who died in the St. Louis city jail is now suing the city, jail employees and medical providers. Samuel Hayes Jr. died last month, after being strapped to a restraint ...

Former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill must face an excessive force lawsuit filed by a former jail detainee whose placement in a restraint chair led in part to Hill’s criminal conviction and prison ...

An Atlanta-area sheriff stands accused of punishing detainees by having them strapped into a restraint chair for hours even though they posed no threat and obeyed instructions. Now a jury must decide ...