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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colette Peters, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 13, 2023, that conditions in federal prisons have improved in the past year ...

Authorities say the death of Darrell Thorne, a Greene County Jail inmate who died in March following a physical altercation with detention staff while reportedly experiencing a drug overdose, has been ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia jailers now have to follow state regulations governing the use of restraints on pregnant inmates. The Virginia Board of Corrections approved the regulations in November ...

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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 alleges .(Photo by Caspar Benson/Getty Images) Two Iowa county jails ...