The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...

Voters need to be aware of a serious matter regarding emergency rooms and the need to provide security. There have been three critical incidents this year where an individual from the Allegheny County ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - A South Carolina prisons officer was arrested for assault and battery according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Captain Travis Laquinton Reese was arrested for ...

Helicopters and dozens of officers from multiple agencies were engaged in a massive search Tuesday after a 13-year-old boy who’s accused of killing two people last month escaped from a courthouse in ...

During his visit to China in 2005, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture found prisoners on death row in a Beijing prison wearing leg cuffs weighing 3kg for 24 hours a day. He said the ...

North Carolina prisons no longer will permit the use of leg or waist restraints on pregnant inmates after a recent complaint that two women were shackled to a hospital bed while in labor. Kenneth ...

A woman hit and knocked over two police officers – and spat in the face of one – when arrested for a breach of the peace at her home after a drinking binge. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...