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 ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommended guidance and supervision to a mental healthcare institution that ...

Julieta* grew weaker as her illness progressed. She was a frail, 4'11", elderly woman battling terminal cancer who began punching the air, trying to assert control over an unfamiliar reality. As her ...

Jason Pratt Kennedy was a talented financial analyst and musician who also enjoyed tennis, softball and bowling and his cat, Frosty. He also had bipolar disorder. Kennedy died on Aug. 15, 2022, after ...

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 ...

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

The use of physical restraint on children at Edinburgh's in-patient mental health unit needs improvement, a report has said. An unannounced inspection of the Melville Unit at the city's Royal Hospital ...

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