The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommended guidance and supervision to a mental healthcare institution that imposed excessive isolation and restraint measures on patients. Regarding ...

Five Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm (GBH) after a man was restrained during an incident at a hospital. On 3 April 2023 a man in his 50s was ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...

While currently, dangerous patients may be restrained only in a hospital psychiatric department, a draft amendment would allow such patients to also be restrained in other circumstances.

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon State Hospital has made notable changes in regards to patient care and safety after a sentinel event in March of 2025. The hospital is now in compliance with Centers ...