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 ...

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, ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (KMBC) — Elijah Lester Isbill sat disoriented behind the wheel of his vehicle as deputies showed up to a parking lot of a Madisonville financial office in February. Isbill could ...

SOLVING PROBLEMS. GETTING RESULTS. HOLDING THE POWERFUL ACCOUNTABLE. KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES A KANSAS CITY FAMILY WANTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO PAY ATTENTION TO A RECENT DEATH BEHIND ...

The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania where a restraint chair is not being used because of a 2021 referendum. The restraint chair allows officers to transport residents without ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...