LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. (WGHP) — The mental image of a child strapped down or held in place by multiple adults might conjure the image of an exorcism movie to most. However, away from Hollywood movie magic ...

England and Wales banned the use of pain-inducing physical restraint last week in children’s prisons. Such techniques are to be “minimised and will only be used as a last resort where it is a ...

When other child psychiatric hospitals in Virginia turn patients away, the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents becomes the safety net. The Commonwealth Center serves youth who require ...

Holding a child with developmental disabilities to the ground should be a last-resort method of calming them down, say attorneys for a family suing a children's hospital and school for its treatment ...

The illegal use of physical restraint by staff members at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester resulted in the fractured shoulder blade of a child with a disability, according to a report ...

Imagine being held face down 137 times, sometimes for more than one hour at a time by caregivers, over the course of six months and you had no idea what you’d done to deserve such treatment. That’s ...

Virginia’s public schools allow restraint and seclusion In 2013-14 over 6,000 students were restrained or placed in seclusion Local schools have restraint policies but take a different path to ...

A 16-year-old girl dies after being physically restrained by staff members during a disruption in a Katy facility for troubled kids. Officials defend the control technique, called the "basket hold," ...

A former Vikings football player known for his role in a lawsuit against the NFL over players’ concussions is now part of another lawsuit over the care of his developmentally disabled son. KELOLAND ...

Fitch said he didn't "know all the nuances of what would or wouldn't define a chemical restraint, except a restraint is something that is going to be used primarily for the benefit of the staff as ...

CONCORD (AP) — Children were restrained or secluded in New Hampshire's residential treatment facilities more than 20,000 times in five years, according to a state watchdog office's report released ...

Thirty-one deaths in Georgia occurred in the past decade as law enforcement officers used restraint methods on suspects.