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Allegheny County may be the first to ban restraint chairs through a referendum. Views diverge on how that policy fares four years on.
Deputies found Evans unresponsive in a restraint chair nearly two hours after they closed the jail cell door. A medical examiner ruled Evans' death an accident, citing methamphetamine intoxication ...
A nationwide KMBC 9 News investigation has found 102 people in 29 states who died or reported injuries after law enforcement’s use of restraint chairs or full-body restraints. Those restraint ...
A woman is suing an Upstate sheriff’s office, claiming her son died after being left in a full-body restraint for nearly ...
Isaiah Trammell lived with autism, Tourette’s, ADHD and died after his time in a restraint chair in Dayton, Ohio.
The family of Glenn Earl Smallwood Jr., a 33-year-old U.S. Army veteran who needed immediate medical attention but was instead taken to jail and strapped to a restraint chair until he was no ...
They include another East Texas case involving claims of medical neglect ... jail staff quickly placed Smallwood in a restraint chair despite him not showing any signs of aggression, according ...