A former Georgia sheriff convicted of ordering inmates to be held in chair restraints for hours without legal cause was sentenced to more than a year in prison Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

An inmate restraint chair was used 29 times at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in 2019, state statistics show. That’s a decrease from 64 chair uses in 2018 — the year that deceased county ...

The director of prisons Alex Dalli is denying reports recieved by MaltaToday that he placed a long-term inmate on a restraint chair in the middle of the Corradino prison’s central hall to quash the ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A federal judge has sentenced a former Cheatham County Corrections Officer to five years in prison for using excessive force on an inmate in the county jail. Mark Bryant was ...

Tatiyanee Mackey, left, Shaheen Mackey Jr., and Chareina Blanding, niece of Shaheen Mackey, speak with members of the media on Wednesday after the release of a video showing Shaheen Mackey being ...

Home Affairs minister Bryon Camilleri has insisted that no punishment chair exists in prison, but restraining devices can still be used by facility personnel. The minister was interviewed on TVM’s ...

CHEYENNE – A local man was sentenced Thursday to at least two years in prison for holding a woman hostage in her home and threatening her. Akean Harrington, 25, will spend at least two, and no more ...

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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 ...