ACCOUNTABLE. KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES. WE’RE REVIEWING A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT AGAINST A MISSOURI SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR ITS USE OF A RESTRAINT CHAIR. IT’S THE SAME PLACE THAT HOUSES INMATES FROM ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 not answer the correct year. He ...

Desmond Bailey still bears the scars — physically and mentally — from the hours he spent in a restraint chair two years ago in the Clayton County Jail. He showed the physical scars on Tuesday to a ...

Landscaper Glenn Howell says his nightmare in the Clayton County jail began with a simple dispute with a client. It was late April, and he was seeking payment for work he had done at the Butts County ...

Guards inside in the Walker County Jail, a north Alabama facility at the center of recent claims that an inmate died of hypothermia, were already facing a separate suit over allegations they assaulted ...

ST. LOUIS (KMBC) — A man’s death over the weekend, after authorities found him unconscious at the St. Louis City Justice Center, marks the 12th death in Missouri linked to a restraint chair or full ...

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 ...