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 ...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — When Samuel Hayes died inside the City Justice Center on July 19, he was just weeks away from standing trial for murder. Instead, he died strapped to a restraint chair, and now ...

While the jail has a full-time mental health worker, there’s typically no one to respond to crises in the evenings and over the weekends, which is when people may be restrained longer, Endicott said.

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — 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 ...

FOUND MONEY FOR THIS POPULAR PROGRAM. A NATIONWIDE INVESTIGATION AT THE CENTER OF A KMBC NINE CHRONICLE IS GETTING RESULTS. SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES AND JAIL OFFICIALS ARE USING OUR INVESTIGATION TO CHANGE ...

A new report from the Iowa ombudsman accuses two jails of using restraint chairs to confine inmates for long periods, sometimes for punishment. The Iowa Office of Ombudsman investigated four inmate ...

Campbell County has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who spent the last 16 hours of her life strapped to a chair at the county jail. Officials agreed to settle the wrongful death ...

AGO. A KMBC NINE NEWS INVESTIGATION WITH IMPACT. OUR LATEST CHRONICLE RESTRAINED, IS GETTING RESULTS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JAIL ADMINISTRATORS ACROSS THE U.S. THE VIDEO THEY’RE WATCHING IS THE SAME ...

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — Bodycam, 911 recordings, incident reports and cruiser, jail surveillance and cellphone video capture the last tormented hours of Lester Isbill’s life. WBIR has gathered the ...

The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania where a restraint chair is not being used because of a 2021 referendum. The restraint chair allows officers to transport residents without ...