Chicago Public Schools – accused by the state of improperly restraining its students – says it is now in compliance with a state mandate to train additional teachers and staff in the areas of ...

Two officers stood on Fernando Rodriguez’s outstretched arms, handcuffs connecting his wrists. Another stood on the shackles binding the 24-year-old’s legs. A fourth officer kneeled on Rodriguez’s ...

With continuing calls for police reform after George Floyd’s death in Minnesota last month, the Hutchinson Police Department has suspended the use of any restraint method that involves an officer ...

ALBANY — The union representing New York state troopers filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the legality of New York City codes that criminalize certain restraint techniques used by State Police and ...

A Senate bill that would prohibit restraint and seclusion from being used to control students with disabilities is causing a split among some disability-rights advocates. The bill, sponsored by U.S.

Students in Jefferson County Public Schools were physically held down or confined to a room more than 4,400 times last school year - an average of nearly 25 times a day. But the state's largest school ...

England and Wales banned the use of pain-inducing physical restraint last week in children’s prisons. Such techniques are to be “minimised and will only be used as a last resort where it is a ...

The family of death-in-custody victim Allan Marshall have blasted Scottish prison chiefs for halting the roll-out of “pain-free” restraint techniques at all jails. Allan was on remand at HMP Edinburgh ...