NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A family in North Texas is still seeking answers a month after a teacher strapped a student to a chair with what was described as a seat belt. The parents in Cedar Hill said ...

McHENRY, Ill. – Vernon L. Brooks Jr. was distraught. Forced into a chair in a jail cell with a black mesh hood over his head, he panicked as he felt officers tighten straps like tourniquets around his ...

THE STRAP IS LOOSE. TASERS ON ME. SIX PEOPLE IN HERE. DUCT TAPE IS NOT SOMETHING YOU USE ON A HUMAN. LOCKED UP. STRAPPED DOWN. I’VE NEVER FELT SO VIOLATED. THE RESTRAINT CHAIR IS A WEAPON OF CONTROL.

Two sheriff’s deputies stood over a man they had just brought into the Newton County jail’s detox cell 10 minutes earlier.Forrest Stockton was breathing heavily, flailing his head back and forth, as ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - While the nation is focused on the deadly use of police force in plain sight on our streets, a restrictive device called the restraint chair is used every day inside our jails and ...

Amnesty International called on US federal authorities to initiate a national inquiry into the use of restraint chairs in detention centres and jails following four deaths between February 2000 and ...

KENOSHA, Wis. - Justin Blake says he's still dealing with pain after his arrest and subsequent hold in a restraint chair at the Kenosha County Jail. It happened after Blake and others were protesting ...

The restraint chairs that have been linked to up to three inmate deaths in Maricopa County’s jails have been replaced by a new piece of furniture. Four-point beds or “safe beds” will be used as a last ...

Shortly after Christmas in 2016, Albert Okal began acting strangely in the Wayne County Jail. He was “jumping around, seeing things,” his lawyer says. The 41-year-old was facing a charge of driving ...

The therapeutic restraint chair used at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility on Maloneyville Road at issue in a federal civil-rights lawsuit. (JAMIE SATTERFIELD/NEWS SENTINEL) (Photo: Jamie ...