Alegend Jones, the 17-year-old who died after an altercation with Youth Villages staff, died due to "complications of restraint with a contributing factor of asthma," Youth Villages said in a press ...

Decubitus ulcers caused by physical restraints and chemical restraints both cause the injured person to become dependent on the nursing staff We see no distinction between Stage III or Stage IV ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 74-year-old man’s death was “complicated by dehydration and restraint” after he spent more than nine hours in a restraint chair, ...

New data from Massachusetts’ state mental hospital in Worcester is raising concerns about how long patients are being physically restrained. In an adult care unit in the Department of Mental Health’s ...

A federal inspection of a Connecticut hospital revealed that a patient with severe physical and mental issues died as the result of being held in physical restraints, as recorded in the patient’s ...

One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...

Two Iowa county jails misused restraint chairs against inmates who were in the throes of a mental health crisis, a new report from the Iowa Office of Ombudsman alleges.Restraint devices that are ...