Stewart Patrick asks advocates of restraint some fair questions in his column this week: But apostles of restraint have their work cut out for them. Their first task is conceptual. They need to ...

“All persons with mental illness have a right to be free from harm, including unnecessary or excessive physical restraint, isolation, medication, abuse or neglect,” according to the California Welfare ...

Tens of thousands of students with special needs are physically restrained in school each year. It's a practice many education advocates consider barbaric. New Jersey has reformed the practice once ...

To the editor: I'd like to express displeasure with a practice being utilized in a local youth facility, the Girardot Center. The practice in question, commonly known as peer restraint, involves ...

The Community Review Board On Police Practices (CRBPP) is considering pushing the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) to get rid of using the carotid restraint technique. It’s a form of hold that’s ...

Capt. Doug Fears, commanding officer of Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, speaks during a ceremony to commission the cutter in Charleston, Dec. 6, 2014. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class ...

Last year, schools in Lowell, Billerica and Fitchburg saw the highest number of students restrained by staff among public school districts in northern Middlesex and Worcester counties, according to ...

Although control intervention techniques such as restraints and confinement are known patient safety risks, a new study from the University of Waterloo reveals that almost 1 in 4 psychiatric patients ...

Support VTDigger’s local nonprofit news and you could win a $250 gift card to Johnson Woolen Mills. Principal Tom Drake holds the door open for a student at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury on ...