The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...

Autoliv has been granted a patent for a knee airbag device designed to restrain an occupant’s lower extremity by expanding below a vehicle’s instrument panel. The airbag includes specific portions to ...

Corrections officers at the Allegheny County Jail and their supporters are seeking to overturn provisions of a voter-approved ban on the use of leg-shackles and other equipment. And they plan to do so ...

Here is what 308,784 voters saw on the November 2021 ballot, which banned the use of leg restraints in hospital emergency rooms: “Shall the Allegheny Code Chapter 205, Allegheny County Jail be amended ...

At least three jails broke Louisiana law by using shackles on female prisoners who were pregnant or even giving birth, a new state audit says. The audit also found that 65% of jails holding state ...