NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A family in North Texas is still seeking answers a month after a teacher strapped a student to a chair with what was described as a seat belt. The parents in Cedar Hill said ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A federal judge has sentenced a former Cheatham County Corrections Officer to five years in prison for using excessive force on an inmate in the county jail. Mark Bryant was ...

THE STRAP IS LOOSE. TASERS ON ME. SIX PEOPLE IN HERE. DUCT TAPE IS NOT SOMETHING YOU USE ON A HUMAN. LOCKED UP. STRAPPED DOWN. I’VE NEVER FELT SO VIOLATED. THE RESTRAINT CHAIR IS A WEAPON OF CONTROL.

Immigrant teens held in U.S. detention centers allege in a new class-action lawsuit that guards restrained them in metal chairs and forced them to wear "spit masks" over their faces, according to The ...

A former Georgia sheriff was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for violating the civil rights of people detained in the Clayton County Jail. Victor Hill, who was employed with the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A nine-month investigation by the Illinois Answers Project found an alarming number of Illinois jails are torturing people using restraining chairs. Some detainees were allegedly ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - While the nation is focused on the deadly use of police force in plain sight on our streets, a restrictive device called the restraint chair is used every day inside our jails and ...

ST. LOUIS — There are renewed demands for answers surrounding the death of a detainee at the St. Louis City Justice Center, just weeks before he was set to stand trial for murder. According to the St.