PITTSBURGH — Is your safety in jeopardy because of a restraint device jail guards are no longer allowed to use in one county? It all has to do with the ban on leg shackles during hospital visits by ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio appeals court has thrown out a man’s aggravated murder conviction, finding that a judge allowing the jury to see him in shackles could have influenced the trial’s ...

US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — By a single vote Wednesday, the en banc Ninth Circuit ruled that the Southern District of California’s policy of shackling pretrial detainees unconstitutionally violates ...

In the spring of 2021, Russia's Interior Ministry placed a tender for nearly 15,000 sets of shackles at a cost of almost 70 million rubles ($1.1 million). "Shackles are not widely used today," a ...