Inside Lewisburg Prison: A Choice Between A Violent Cellmate Or Shackles At one of the toughest prisons in America, doubling up inmates in cells designed for solitary confinement can lead to ...

Prisoner Daniel Ortiz was still wearing leg shackles. — -- A manhunt is underway in New York City after a prisoner — still wearing a leg shackles — escaped a downtown Manhattan hospital ...

Ex-prisoner wins lawsuit over shackles. Jury says rights violated during labor, awards $1. July 16, 2010 at 5:46 a.m. by Andy Davis ...

Corrections Officers at the Allegheny County Jail are pushing to bring back the use of leg shackles during hospital visits.

Judges must make individual rulings before a defendant enters a courtroom in leg shackles, which chain a defendant's ankles together, or any other restraints, according to two recent 9th U.S ...

MCKEESPORT, Pa. --A prisoner shackled to a hospital bed and guarded by a deputy somehow obtained a key to his handcuffs and used a nurse as an obstacle as he hopped off a gurney and escaped, the ...

“Why would you want shackles round your legs that’s just like back in slavery days #sillyidea,” commented Shakira Allen. “Wearing them you can feel like real prisoner,” wrote Pawel Lisowski.

At least three jails broke Louisiana law by using shackles on female prisoners who were pregnant or even giving birth, a new state audit says. The audit also found that 65% of jails holding state ...

At one of the toughest prisons in America, doubling up inmates in cells designed for solitary confinement can lead to violence, and for some who refuse a cellmate, handcuffs and chains.

On Feb. 3, 2011, corrections officers at the Lewisburg federal penitentiary in central Pennsylvania arrived outside Sebastian Richardson's cell door. With them was a man looking agitated, rocking back ...

The Lewisburg Prison Project, which has a two-person staff, received 962 letters from Lewisburg prisoners in 2015 and makes regular visits to the penitentiary. The workers often hear the same ...

Prison documents show that psychology staff in the SMU repeatedly found Arche-Felix to have "no significant mental health issues," though he had previously been under an involuntary treatment order in ...