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 ...

Three men involved in the restraint chair case that landed former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill in a federal prison have filed civil lawsuits against the ex-lawman. Raheem Peterkin, Walter Thomas ...

NINE NEWS. WE HAVE AN UPDATE TO A NATIONWIDE KMBC NINE NEWS INVESTIGATION. THERE’S A NEW MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT IN A CASE INVOLVING THE USE OF A RESTRAINT CHAIR THAT WE HIGHLIGHTED EARLIER ...

FOUND MONEY FOR THIS POPULAR PROGRAM. A NATIONWIDE INVESTIGATION AT THE CENTER OF A KMBC NINE CHRONICLE IS GETTING RESULTS. SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES AND JAIL OFFICIALS ARE USING OUR INVESTIGATION TO CHANGE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A family is demanding murder charges for corrections workers involved in the death of a 25-year-old man after his time in a ...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — When Samuel Hayes died inside the City Justice Center on July 19, he was just weeks away from standing trial for murder. Instead, he died strapped to a restraint chair, and now ...

A new report from the Iowa ombudsman accuses two jails of using restraint chairs to confine inmates for long periods, sometimes for punishment. The Iowa Office of Ombudsman investigated four inmate ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A nine-month investigation by the Illinois Answers Project found an alarming number of Illinois jails are torturing people using restraining chairs. Some detainees were allegedly ...

Newman said she immediately contacted Wright, who confirmed a resident at the center had a chair that was used for restraints. Newman ordered Wright to stop using restraint chairs at the facility and ...