A federal inmate had to have one of his or her limbs partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days. Another incarcerated person died after being pepper sprayed and left shackled in a ...

A screenshot from a video of officers at the U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., holding an incarcerated person in a four-point restraint. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois) One ...

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Two Iowa county jails misused restraint chairs against inmates who were in the throes of a mental health crisis, a new report from the Iowa Office of Ombudsman alleges.Restraint devices that are ...

One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for more than two days. Another was held in restraints so tight that, afterward, part of a limb had to be amputated. A third person was ...