Prison staff have been criticised for restraining a 76-year-old rapist before he died from organ failure as a result of sepsis. David Howarth, a prisoner at HMP Full Sutton, East Yorkshire, died of ...

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A 2018 restraint chair death led to a $1.5 million legal settlement. The jail has used restraint chairs more than 1,000 times ...

One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for more than two days. Another was held in restraints so tight that, afterward, part of a limb had to be amputated. A third person was ...

When her boyfriend stabbed her in the neck, a Massachusetts woman feared telling the truth would cost her life. So she blamed a stranger. Two years later, she returned to police with the real story: ...

Leavenworth County District Judge John Bryant took a motion by private prison company CoreCivic under advisement, holding off on making a decision whether to lift a temporary restraining order against ...

A man died hours after being restrained by prison officers on his first night in custody, an inquest has heard. Josh Tarrant, 34, arrived at HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, on 31 October. He ...

Prison officers carried out “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint on a prisoner moments before his death, an inquest has found. Azroy Dawes-Clarke, 28, from Romford, east London, was an ...