Allegheny County Council struck down a measure Wednesday night to partly reverse the ban on restraining prisoners with leg ...

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

Corrections officers at the Allegheny County Jail are pushing to bring back the use of leg shackles during hospital visits. The restraints were banned as part of a ballot referendum in 2021. Officers ...

Corrections officers at the Allegheny County Jail and their supporters are forging ahead with an effort to overturn parts of a ban on the use of leg-shackles and other restraints. But opponents warn ...

Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...