McHENRY, Ill. – Vernon L. Brooks Jr. was distraught. Forced into a chair in a jail cell with a black mesh hood over his head, he panicked as he felt officers tighten straps like tourniquets around his ...
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.
ACCOUNTABLE. KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES. WE’RE REVIEWING A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT AGAINST A MISSOURI SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR ITS USE OF A RESTRAINT CHAIR. IT’S THE SAME PLACE THAT HOUSES INMATES FROM ...
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 ...
Campbell County has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who spent the last 16 hours of her life strapped to a chair at the county jail. Officials agreed to settle the wrongful death ...
A federal inmate had to have one of his or her limbs partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days. Another incarcerated person died after being pepper sprayed and left shackled in a ...
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 ...
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Ex-sheriff accused of keeping man in restraint chair for hours in case called 'cruel and unusual'
In a federal courtroom in Atlanta, a former Georgia sheriff is back in the hot seat. According to WSB-TV investigative reporter Mark Winne, a jury has now been seated in a civil rights lawsuit ...
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 ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The state Ombudsman is warning county jails in Iowa are misusing restraint chairs. It released a report of it’s recommendations for all of Iowa’s jails on Thursday. “I ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Two years ago, Local 12 investigated serious abuse and deaths of inmates who had been strapped to restraint chairs. Hamilton County’s Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey promised to reform ...
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