Earlier this week, a Monroe County grand jury indicted seven people in the death of 74-year-old Lester Isbill. Following those presentments, District Attorney Stephen Hatchett released a statement on ...

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.

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (KMBC) — Elijah Lester Isbill sat disoriented behind the wheel of his vehicle as deputies showed up to a parking lot of a Madisonville financial office in February. Isbill could ...

New commissioner of corrections Nate Hayward aims to improve safety at City Justice Center after series of deaths.

“A restraint chair is only for the very acute situation. And if you have to restrain someone because there’s violence that cannot be contained any other way, you put them in a restraint chair for a ...

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 ...

FLEENER SHOWS US THE UPDATE. THIS LAWSUIT, FILED EARLIER THIS MONTH, DETAILS HOW SAM HAYS JUNIOR DIED AFTER MORE THAN AN HOUR AND A HALF IN A RESTRAINT CHAIR. IT HAPPENED IN SAINT LOUIS AT THE CITY ...

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 ...

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — Several Monroe County Sheriff's Office jail employees were suspended or fired over "falsified" records meant to keep track of how they monitored a 74-year-old man confined for ...