Is your safety in jeopardy because of a restraint device jail guards are no longer allowed to use in one county? It all has to do with the ban on leg shackles during hospital visits by inmates and ...

Allegheny County Jail corrections officers may be allowed to use leg shackles when taking incarcerated people to medical appointments if county council approves a measure repealing a portion of the ...

At a meeting Wednesday, Allegheny County Council rejected an effort to overturn a ban on leg shackles at the jail.

We may not be in chains but we're all shackled in one way or another. Might Independence Day be the time to shed one or more of your restraints? Shackles from your past. Are you letting sadness over ...

In the second century BCE, Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides wrote about the severe working conditions of the criminals and prisoners of war who toiled in ancient Egyptian gold mines: “And ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. From a tender age, Ali Hassan was drawn to art. He admired how his grandmother would ...