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 ...
One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for more than two days. Another was held in restraints so tight that, afterward, part of a limb had to be amputated. A third person was ...
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 ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during ...
KALAMAZOO — Jurors who saw Ervine Lee Davenport wearing handcuffs or leg shackles while on trial in 2008 for murder said they thought it was part of the regular security procedure. The restraints had ...
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 ...
It’s obvious that placing a criminal defendant in handcuffs and leg shackles runs the risk of prejudicing a jury. But even when only a judge is present, a policy of shackling a defendant violates his ...
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