Prison staff have been criticised for restraining a 76-year-old rapist before he died from organ failure as a result of sepsis. David Howarth, a prisoner at HMP Full Sutton, East Yorkshire, died of ...

A 2018 restraint chair death led to a $1.5 million legal settlement. The jail has used restraint chairs more than 1,000 times ...

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When her boyfriend stabbed her in the neck, a Massachusetts woman feared telling the truth would cost her life. So she blamed a stranger. Two years later, she returned to police with the real story: ...

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 ...

Leavenworth County District Judge John Bryant took a motion by private prison company CoreCivic under advisement, holding off on making a decision whether to lift a temporary restraining order against ...

Prison officers carried out “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint on a prisoner moments before his death, an inquest has found. Azroy Dawes-Clarke, 28, from Romford, east London, was an ...