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 ...

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 ...

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France called on Israel to withdraw its troops from the buffer zone along the border with Syria, while Germany and Spain urged Jerusalem to show restraint during the transition period in its ...

Harvey Benson, who was 13 when he started attending Wings School in Milnthorpe, says staff regularly used physical restraints on him and other pupils. It comes as police in Cumbria launch ...