The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...

PHOENIX — The ABC15 Investigators are learning officers used a controversial restraint method on a Maryvale man before he died in their custody this month. The autopsy is still pending for 28-year-old ...

Police put Redding man in leg restraints while arresting him during a struggle Saturday while investigating alleged domestic violence. One officer suffered an injury during the violent encounter and ...

Here is what 308,784 voters saw on the November 2021 ballot, which banned the use of leg restraints in hospital emergency rooms: “Shall the Allegheny Code Chapter 205, Allegheny County Jail be amended ...

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 ...

At least three jails broke Louisiana law by using shackles on female prisoners who were pregnant or even giving birth, a new state audit says. The audit also found that 65% of jails holding state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waist and leg restraints were used on asylum seekers being escorted back to France as part of the Government’s “one in, one out” ...

Waist and leg restraints were used on asylum seekers being escorted back to France as part of the Government’s “one in, one out” scheme, an inspection has revealed. Records from three removals showed ...