“A restraint chair is only for the very acute situation ... mentally ill individuals,” Humphrey said. Her office secured funding to hire a full-time mental health professional in October ...

and secured in a restraint chair until he became unresponsive and died in the booking area of the NCRJ,” read a release describing the lawsuit. “This is a real problem and they keep saying ...

Former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill must face an excessive force lawsuit filed by a former jail detainee whose placement in a restraint chair led in part to Hill’s criminal conviction and ...

Allegheny County residents voted to ban the use of restraint chairs at the county jail nearly four years ago, but new efforts could seek to overturn the moratorium. Some advocates and corrections ...