McHENRY, Ill. – Vernon L. Brooks Jr. was distraught. Forced into a chair in a jail cell with a black mesh hood over his head, he panicked as he felt officers tighten straps like tourniquets around his ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The state Ombudsman is warning county jails in Iowa are misusing restraint chairs. It released a report of it’s recommendations for all of Iowa’s jails on Thursday. “I ...

An Alabama inmate died of hypothermia after jail officers allegedly restrained him in a walk-in freezer and left him there. His body temperature dropped to 72 degrees.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — When Samuel Hayes died inside the City Justice Center on July 19, he was just weeks away from standing trial for murder. Instead, he died strapped to a restraint chair, and now ...

DAYTON, Ohio — The family of a man who died after being restrained in an Ohio jail said Monday that the deputies who piled on him stood by for several minutes without trying to save his life after he ...

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — Earlier this week, a Monroe County grand jury indicted seven people in the death of 74-year-old Lester Isbill. Following those presentments, District Attorney Stephen Hatchett ...

A new report from the Iowa ombudsman accuses two jails of using restraint chairs to confine inmates for long periods, sometimes for punishment. The Iowa Office of Ombudsman investigated four inmate ...

AGO. A KMBC NINE NEWS INVESTIGATION WITH IMPACT. OUR LATEST CHRONICLE RESTRAINED, IS GETTING RESULTS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JAIL ADMINISTRATORS ACROSS THE U.S. THE VIDEO THEY’RE WATCHING IS THE SAME ...

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — Bodycam, 911 recordings, incident reports and cruiser, jail surveillance and cellphone video capture the last tormented hours of Lester Isbill’s life. WBIR has gathered the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Boone County Jail is located along Mamie Eisenhower Avenue in Boone, Iowa. The law enforcement center is pictured on Dec. 20, ...