The father of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was newly paralyzed from the waist down, wanted to know why his son was shackled to his hospital bed. Jacob Blake had been shot in the back seven ...

Corrections officers at the Allegheny County Jail and their supporters are seeking to overturn provisions of a voter-approved ban on the use of leg-shackles and other equipment. And they plan to do so ...

Corrections officers at the Allegheny County Jail and their supporters are forging ahead with an effort to overturn parts of a ban on the use of leg-shackles and other restraints. But opponents warn ...

CHICAGO -- The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has fired a contractor who improperly restrained a child during transport despite a DCFS ban on the practice since late last year. A ...

Restraints, including shackles and handcuffs, were used on hundreds of people being deported from the UK, it has been revealed. Home Office subcontractors used restraints on 447 separate occasions ...

Physical restraint of people with mental illness has a long and inglorious history. Philippe Pinel is credited with having released the mentally ill from their chains at the Bicêtre and the ...

Reporting from San Francisco — An appeals court Tuesday struck down a policy of routinely handcuffing and shackling pretrial detainees appearing before judges in the San Diego-based federal court ...