A provincial court judge in Labrador is criticizing police for automatically shackling defendants when they're brought into court. In a written decision filed last week, Judge John Joy said the ...

This article originally appeared in The Crime Report,and is published in a cooperative venture with Crimesider. When Skye Gosselin came to the Biddeford District Court on the coast of southern Maine ...

Police presence will be amplified as a result of shots fired near the stadium during a track meet on May 2. West Virginia's state tax division intervenes in lawsuit involving Greenbrier Resort The ...

PHILADELPHIA — The parents of a special-needs student in Philadelphia said their 5-year-old was traumatized after police handcuffed and shackled the boy during an incident at school. The Watertown ...

I am a 16-year-old junior at Massabesic High school and was honored recently to have the opportunity to testify before the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety about a ...

PHILADELPHIA, N.Y. (AP) — New York state police are defending the actions of two troopers who placed a 5-year-old special needs student in handcuffs and shackled his feet while bringing him to a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The use of handcuffs or shackles for transporting youth is now banned by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The policy change comes after two teenage boys, ages ...

Five-year-old Connor Ruiz, a special needs student in Philadelphia, New York, has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at school — and he ended up shackled and handcuffed in a police car as a ...