“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 ...

This year I have interviewed dozens of people who have told me how aged care facilities drugged their parents, grandparents, husbands, wives and neighbours. We’d sit down in someone’s home, or in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

A North Carolina hospital is making excessive use of patient restraints, a practice that has been largely discontinued at most hospitals and healthcare institutions as unsafe and harmful to patients, ...

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 ...

Massachusetts is one of a growing number of states that are putting new restrictions on the practice of restraining and secluding public school students. The techniques — which have been blamed for ...

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 ...

Drivers passing through Vernon were confronted by an unusual sight on the afternoon of Dec. 29, 2008: a naked man, running down Grande Vista Avenue in the middle of traffic, babbling and punching cars ...