NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A family in North Texas is still seeking answers a month after a teacher strapped a student to a chair with what was described as a seat belt. The parents in Cedar Hill said ...

An Ames woman was charged with assault on a peace officer after she allegedly pulled her left arm out of a restraint chair strap and struck a deputy in the face. According to court documents, ...

THE STRAP IS LOOSE. TASERS ON ME. SIX PEOPLE IN HERE. DUCT TAPE IS NOT SOMETHING YOU USE ON A HUMAN. LOCKED UP. STRAPPED DOWN. I’VE NEVER FELT SO VIOLATED. THE RESTRAINT CHAIR IS A WEAPON OF CONTROL.

A former Georgia sheriff was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for violating the civil rights of people detained in the Clayton County Jail. Victor Hill, who was employed with the ...

A new report from the Iowa ombudsman accuses two jails of using restraint chairs to confine inmates for long periods, sometimes for punishment. The Iowa Office of Ombudsman investigated four inmate ...

Amnesty International called on US federal authorities to initiate a national inquiry into the use of restraint chairs in detention centres and jails following four deaths between February 2000 and ...

Immigrant teens held in U.S. detention centers allege in a new class-action lawsuit that guards restrained them in metal chairs and forced them to wear "spit masks" over their faces, according to The ...

The Plantation Key jail, where a teen panicked as he was strapped down into a restraint chair. Kevin Wadlow Florida Keys Keynoter The video shows a slightly built 17-year-old sitting in a chair in a ...

In a federal courtroom in Atlanta, a former Georgia sheriff is back in the hot seat. According to WSB-TV investigative reporter Mark Winne, a jury has now been seated in a civil rights lawsuit ...

TAVARES — Concerned about a sister who had struggled with drug abuse and mental illness, Dawn Edgar called from California two years ago to ask a favor of Lake County deputy sheriffs: Please check on ...