PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A disability rights organization has sued the state’s behavioral health care agency, alleging the department has unlawfully withheld information tied to accusations that ...

Intended as a safety intervention—but high-risk and potentially fatal if used improperly—physical and mechanical restraints have resulted in the deaths of dozens of children living in out-of-home care ...

SPRINGFIELD (ILLINOIS CAPITOL BUREAU) -- The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is facing backlash from the Governor and children's rights advocates after a child was shackled in a ...

A ban on the use of mechanical restraint for children has been issued by the Mental Health Commission (MHC). It follows a review and consultation process by the regulator on the rules and code of ...

Freda Latham, a woman with learning disabilities, was being treated at an acute mental health facility in Yorkshire when staff decided she needed to be forcibly restrained. She was tied to a toilet ...

The NHS should consider the wider use of mechanical restraints, including handcuffs and straitjackets, to tackle the rising number of violent mentally ill patients, senior psychiatric nurses said ...

A still from the ABC Four Corners episode showing Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller strapped into a mechanical restraint chair. Source: ABC Australia The image of 17-year-old Don Dale Junvenile Detention ...

The parents of autistic twins are calling for a change in the law after their two boys were strapped into chairs at school. Samuel and Jacob Montague were placed in mechanical restraints while in ...

Teenager hooded and strapped to a restraint chair in NT juvenile detention centre Source: Four Corners The image of 17-year-old Don Dale Junvenile Detention Centre detainee Dylan Voller strapped into ...

The Mental Health Commission has banned the use of mechanical restraints, such as leg or arm cuffs, on children in mental health centres. The ban comes into force from next January 1st, along with ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida teachers and other school staff are now banned from using mechanical restraints on students in sixth grade or higher after a House Bill was signed into law by the governor ...