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 ...

ANNISTON, Alabama -- A Calhoun County Jail inmate being held on burglary charges since June now faces assault charges after biting a guard. Chief Deputy Matthew Wade said Christopher Ball, 18, faces ...

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 ...