As Crystal Spradlin picked up her 10-year-old at the bus stop in March 2022, she noticed he was limping. She later learned that her son, who has autism, had a broken leg. He could not walk after staff ...

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 ...

Voters need to be aware of a serious matter regarding emergency rooms and the need to provide security. There have been three critical incidents this year where an individual from the Allegheny County ...

A Black inmate at a Georgia jail accused a corrections officer of choking him with a leg restraint and making a racist comment while three other officers watched, according to a lawsuit. Subscribe to ...

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” ...

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 ...