Rashad Roynel Banks shuffled into a federal courtroom in downtown Portland last month, his ankles chained together. His attorney immediately objected, and a judge directed two deputy U.S. marshals to ...

Latiana Walton went through most of her labor at Stroger Hospital with an arm and leg chained to her bed, she remembers. As contractions surged through her body, she could not move or change position ...

It’s obvious that placing a criminal defendant in handcuffs and leg shackles runs the risk of prejudicing a jury. But even when only a judge is present, a policy of shackling a defendant violates his ...

Reporting from San Francisco — An appeals court Tuesday struck down a policy of routinely handcuffing and shackling pretrial detainees appearing before judges in the San Diego-based federal court ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. A clinking sound accompanied Sean Taylor down the hallway of the Denver County Courthouse. The leg irons that ...

A recent ruling from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has local judges and attorneys at odds over the shackling of inmates for routine court proceedings. At issue is the ...

A proposed Milwaukee County policy would limit use of shackles and other restraints on pregnant inmates in county correctional facilities, under a resolution to be considered by the County Board. A ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Courts cannot routinely shackle defendants “like a bear on a chain” and must instead decide on a case-by-case basis whether the restraints are necessary to prevent violence or ...

Last week, I introduced you to Steven Teske, chief judge of Clayton County’s Juvenile Court. In 2015, you may or may not recall, Teske issued an order banning the use of shackles in his courtroom.

The Special Management Unit at Lewisburg prison, which was created in 2009 for "dangerously violent, confrontational, defiant, antagonistic inmates," has received many complaints about its use of ...