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CCHR leads protest against American Psychiatric Association, citing billions of dollars wasted on coercive practices—deadly restraints killing children, forced treatment—and a system that harms ...
Allegheny County may be the first to ban restraint chairs through a referendum. Views diverge on how that policy fares four years on.
Dominique Kee filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office, alleging he was left in a ...
The Polk County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that 255 were arrested in a nine-day undercover investigation called ...
The former sheriff at that jail did time in prison on civil rights charges for strapping nonviolent detainees in restraint chairs.
Isaiah Trammell lived with autism, Tourette’s, ADHD and died after his time in a restraint chair in Dayton, Ohio.
The family of an Ohio man who died two days after deputies restrained him in jail is calling for murder charges to be filed ...
A family is demanding murder charges for corrections workers involved in the death of a 25-year-old man after his time in a Montgomery County, Ohio, jail restraint chair.Family and attorneys for ...
Attorneys for the family said the deputies and jail medical staff members who looked on as Christian Black sat slumped in a restraint chair should be criminally charged in his death.