PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A disability rights organization has sued the state’s behavioral health care agency, alleging the department has unlawfully withheld information tied to accusations that ...

SPRINGFIELD (ILLINOIS CAPITOL BUREAU) -- The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is facing backlash from the Governor and children's rights advocates after a child was shackled in a ...

Across all five facilities, mechanical restraints were used on residents 148 times in July as the pandemic surged, according to state data: four times at Jonesboro, eight times at Booneville, 12 times ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida teachers and other school staff are now banned from using mechanical restraints on students in sixth grade or higher after a House Bill was signed into law by the governor ...

Freda Latham, a woman with learning disabilities, was being treated at an acute mental health facility in Yorkshire when staff decided she needed to be forcibly restrained. She was tied to a toilet ...

The parents of autistic twins are calling for a change in the law after their two boys were strapped into chairs at school. Samuel and Jacob Montague were placed in mechanical restraints while in ...

During the first four months of this school year, Florida’s public schools restrained more than 1,500 students with disabilities. Staff held youngsters face down on the floor, forced them into chairs ...

Teenager hooded and strapped to a restraint chair in NT juvenile detention centre Source: Four Corners The image of 17-year-old Don Dale Junvenile Detention Centre detainee Dylan Voller strapped into ...