The family of a 19-year-old man with autism who died while incarcerated at the Montgomery County Jail in 2023 filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the jail’s medical provider — Naphcare, Inc. — and ...

He was allowed to suffer and die in the short time he was at the jail with 911 not being called until his blood pressure was almost non-existent.” ...

Atlanta's federal appeals court has rejected a bid by former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill to end an excessive force lawsuit filed by a former jail detainee.

Allegheny County residents voted to ban the use of restraint chairs at the county jail nearly four years ago, but new efforts could seek to overturn the moratorium. Some advocates and corrections ...

Frontline staff at the Allegheny County Jail say our new warden is in the ... and learn what national studies say about the restraint chair, and listen to what the frontline staff is saying ...

then “tied and/or cuffed” his wrist and ankles and strapped him to a restraint chair. He died as a pretrial detainee, while tied to a chair in the jail’s booking area on Sept. 8, 2023 ...