The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently held that shackling adult defendants in handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains ... more aggressive than before. The shackles sent a message of fear, that ...

“There’s not much chain between the leg irons,” she explained ... have laws prohibiting the use of shackles on pregnant women during childbirth; of these, very few extend the ban throughout ...

But the shackles and barbed wire imply the threat ... writing a resume while chained to the cold metal floor by padded leg irons. The pictures have all been approved by the U.S. military and ...

But at 8:10 a.m. Wednesday, just three hours after police left the hospital, security saw Melofchik on Mulberry Street as he “walked away from CMC wearing a set of our leg irons,” Duffy said.