Former Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois) Former Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force Against Detainee in Maywood Lockup in 2010...
View ArticleShackling to end at San Francisco immigration court
Immigrants fighting deportation in San Francisco will no longer be shackled during most court hearings, according to a settlement reached with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The settlement,...
View ArticleBook excerpt: Ruby trial had everything, but dignity, decorum, law
Looking for Trouble, by late Sun founder Peter Worthington, is now available for the first time in e-book form. This new digital edition coincides with the first anniversary of Pete's death. Excerpts...
View ArticleMiddle ground on shackling juvenile suspects
Three Colorado counties have started unshackling juveniles during court appearances (Thinkstock) The image of a pre-adolescent kid standing shackled before a judge to answer to minor crimes is...
View ArticleSheriff sues county panel to fire jail deputy
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticlePANEL THAT REINSTATED DEPUTY SUED SHERIFF SUES OVER DEPUTY REINSTATEMENT
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticleSheriff sues panel that reinstated deputy
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticlePanel says state can't intervene in concealed-weapon appeal
A federal appeals court decided Wednesday that California has no legal right to challenge a ruling that prevents counties from imposing strict requirements on carrying concealed weapons in public. The...
View ArticlePANEL THAT REINSTATED DEPUTY SUED
SAN DIEGO For the second time in two years, Sheriff Bill Gore is asking a judge to overturn a decision made by the county Civil Service Commission. The latest suit, filed after commissioners rejected...
View ArticleSheriff defends officer who shackled school children
A Kentucky sheriff is standing behind a deputy officer who restrained two elementary school children with disabilities using handcuffs last fall, saying he did nothing wrong. "Covington Schools'...
View ArticleWashington, DC, courts to stop routinely shackling juveniles
WASHINGTON (AP) — Political leaders and judges in the District of Columbia's federally run court system have reached an agreement to end the routine shackling of juvenile defendants during court...
View ArticleNY police handcuff, shackle ‘combative five-year-old’
The idea that police officers should use handcuffs and leg shackles to control an unruly individual is hardly unusual in the U.S., where fondness for the use of metal restraints runs through the...
View ArticleFederal authorities agree to limit shackling of immigrants in court
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement in ACLU lawsuit...
View ArticleL.A. County deputy handcuffs public defender, and 'tiff' turns into a federal...
A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy may be held liable for arresting a public defender for failing to immediately obey a judge’s summons to her courtroom, a federal appeals court decided Friday. In a...
View ArticleL.A. Superior Court doesn't have to reopen shuttered courthouses, appeals...
Federal judges are barred from ordering Los Angeles Superior Court to reopen closed courthouses, a U.S. appeals panel decided Tuesday. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a lawsuit brought by...
View ArticlePlaintiff made to wear prison garb, handcuffs at trial against guards...
| Inmates often wear orange to court for pretrial hearings and sentencings, but usually get to to wear civilian clothes for trials. If they must wear leg chains, they're usually hidden by a curtain on...
View ArticleSheriff's deputy shackled elementary school students who had disabilities,...
A Kentucky deputy sheriff restrained two elementary school children with disabilities using handcuffs, shackling their arms behind their backs and causing them pain and emotional trauma, a new federal...
View Article>Feds to limit use of shackles at immigration court
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal authorities would limit the use of shackles on immigrants who appear before immigration judges under a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit. U.S. Immigration and...
View ArticleICE to limit use of shackles at immigration court
Federal authorities would limit the use of shackles on immigrants who appear before immigration judges under a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
View ArticleFeds to limit use of shackles at immigration court
Federal authorities would limit the use of shackles on immigrants who appear before immigration judges under a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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