“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 ...

The sheriff's office said the deputy used "inappropriate force" when putting an inmate on the ground while securing them to ...

The suit says that Harris was able to free his right arm from the restraint on the chair, and the three defendants entered the cell to secure him with handcuffs. "Subsequently, while standing ...

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 ...

A former detention deputy with the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has been charged with one count of Assault and Battery ...

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 ...