“We Are in Tombs”
Summary “It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.” –Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in...
View ArticleShackling video ignites debate on school discipline
The boy sat in a chair, the sound of his whimpering interrupted briefly by the clank of metal handcuffs closing around his arms. "You don't get to swing at me like that," a deputy says to the...
View ArticleLawsuit: Kenton County deputy sheriff shackled two elementary students who...
A federal lawsuit filed in Northern Kentucky Monday alleges that a Kenton County deputy sheriff shackled two elementary school children who have disabilities, causing them pain and trauma. A school...
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 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 ArticleCarroll: A vengeful judge in Arapahoe County
For those of you who typically vote to retain every judge on your lengthy ballot, attorney Daniel Foster has a cautionary story — at least if you live in the 18th Judicial District of Arapahoe,...
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 ArticleFormer Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Chicago Field Office) CHICAGO-A former Cook County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of a man being held in the county's...
View ArticleSeriously ill detainee was shackled hours before he died
Home Office report into death of man handcuffed during surgery raises important questions about vulnerable detainees’ care...
View ArticleAccused killer uncuffed to communicate with lawyers
Daniel French, the Kentucky man accused of killing an 87-year-old Monroe woman, was escorted into court Tuesday restrained by shackles, handcuffs and a belly band. But his right hand was freed after a...
View ArticleFormer Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced To 1 Year In Prison For Using...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois) CHICAGO - A former Cook County sheriff's deputy was sentenced today to one year in federal prison for violating the civil...
View ArticleFormer Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Using...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Chicago Field Office) CHICAGO-A former Cook County sheriff's deputy was sentenced today to one year in federal prison for violating the civil rights of a man...
View ArticleThreats loom over gang trial; U.S. marshals want Hobos shackled
Security threats looming over an impending street-gang trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse have prompted the U.S. Marshals to ask a judge to take the rare step of shackling alleged gang members...
View ArticleFormer 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 ArticleFreddie Gray officer acquitted on all charges in custody death case
A police officer has been acquitted of assault and other charges in the arrest of Freddie Gray, who died in custody in Baltimore. The acquittal is a serious blow to prosecutors attempting to hold...
View ArticleAn Irritated Judge Handcuffs A Defense Lawyer In Court
By Alhaji Alhasan Abdulai Wonders will continue to occur in the world. The reason? We in Ghana and most parts of the world are yet to encounter this experience. But it has happened in the United States...
View ArticleCalifornia can't challenge ruling on concealed guns, court says
Relaxed rules for carrying concealed guns in public may not be challenged by California state officials or advocacy groups, a federal appeals panel decided Wednesday. The decision was another victory...
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 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 ArticleJudge: UVa murder defendant must wear jail clothing for now
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A judge ruled Thursday that a man charged with abducting and killing a University of Virginia student must continue to wear jail-issued clothing and shackles in hearings...
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