Rashad Roynel Banks shuffled into a federal courtroom in downtown Portland last month, his ankles chained together. His attorney immediately objected, and a judge directed two deputy U.S. marshals to ...

Chains rattle lightly, clinking and jangling, as an inmate walks. A waist shackle, also called a “belly chain,” loops around his or her hips, locking into handcuffs in front of the body. Going back to ...

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has begun fitting all court-bound inmates with shackles binding their arms to their bellies, sparking complaints of inhumane treatment from the Public Defender’s ...