Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A bill banning the use of face-down restraint techniques by state employees passed a second reading on the Senate floor Friday. The use of so-called “prone ...

Despite safety warnings, police departments continue misapplying restraint positions and techniques For decades, top law enforcement agencies have warned that certain restraint techniques may hinder a ...

Lawmakers, advocates and parents of students with disabilities gathered at the Texas State Capitol Monday morning to call for tighter restrictions on the use of dangerous physical restraints in ...

England and Wales banned the use of pain-inducing physical restraint last week in children’s prisons. Such techniques are to be “minimised and will only be used as a last resort where it is a ...

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