Stewart Patrick asks advocates of restraint some fair questions in his column this week: But apostles of restraint have their work cut out for them. Their first task is conceptual. They need to ...

Shedding new light on Chicago Public Schools’ recent disclosure that the district violated state laws in its use of physical restraint and isolation of students, a letter from the state education ...

“All persons with mental illness have a right to be free from harm, including unnecessary or excessive physical restraint, isolation, medication, abuse or neglect,” according to the California Welfare ...

Tens of thousands of students with special needs are physically restrained in school each year. It's a practice many education advocates consider barbaric. New Jersey has reformed the practice once ...

This year I have interviewed dozens of people who have told me how aged care facilities drugged their parents, grandparents, husbands, wives and neighbours. We’d sit down in someone’s home, or in an ...

To the editor: I'd like to express displeasure with a practice being utilized in a local youth facility, the Girardot Center. The practice in question, commonly known as peer restraint, involves ...

Capt. Doug Fears, commanding officer of Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, speaks during a ceremony to commission the cutter in Charleston, Dec. 6, 2014. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class ...

Last year, schools in Lowell, Billerica and Fitchburg saw the highest number of students restrained by staff among public school districts in northern Middlesex and Worcester counties, according to ...

Massachusetts is one of a growing number of states that are putting new restrictions on the practice of restraining and secluding public school students. The techniques — which have been blamed for ...

Last year, schools in Lowell, Billerica and Fitchburg saw the highest number of students restrained by staff among public school districts in northern Middlesex and Worcester counties, according to ...

The Social Care Institute for Excellence explains how a thorough knowledge of residents' needs, multi-agency partnerships, and good record-keeping can reduce the need for restraint of residents in ...

Kai Atallah can’t forget the bright lights. The 9-year-old from west Michigan isn’t talking about the sun streaming through a classroom window. Not the shine of a bottle rocket zooming into the sky as ...