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PITTSBURGH — Is your safety in jeopardy because of a restraint device jail guards are no longer allowed to use in one county? It all has to do with the ban on leg shackles during hospital visits by ...

State correctional officials should tighten their requirements for restraining unruly jail inmates and improve help for those with mental illness to stem potentially abusive use of the restraints in ...

Allegheny County Jail corrections officers may be allowed to use leg shackles when taking incarcerated people to medical appointments if county council approves a measure repealing a portion of the ...

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 ...