PITTSBURGH — Is your safety in jeopardy because of a restraint device jail guards are no longer allowed to use in one county? It all has to do with the ban on leg shackles during hospital visits by ...
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 ...
US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald ...
In the spring of 2021, Russia's Interior Ministry placed a tender for nearly 15,000 sets of shackles at a cost of almost 70 million rubles ($1.1 million). "Shackles are not widely used today," a ...