Bill 11-049 banning prone restraint was postponed indefinitely 8-5. Colorado could not get enough votes in the House Committee on Health and Environment to move forward to the full House. Vermont and New Hampshire are also states that voted down legislation banning prone restraint. Chalk another win up to the United States Constitution the 5th and [...]
This JUST IN: Colorado’s proposed Bill No. 11-049 was defeated. Colorado proposed Bill No. 11-049 is substantively invalid and violates the laws of Colorado and the United States. False impetus for the introduction of legislation We understand that the advocates and now the Colorado senate are using the recent death at one of Colorado’s Developmental [...]
The type of restraint used at this facility has not yet been released. However the last time Daystar got into a jam it was using the basket hold in the prone position. Even the Feds had the wherewithall to recognize that the basket hold in the prone position is a bad idea. The GAO in its 1999 [...]
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http://www.wiu.edu/ Since August 2006, Dr. Ross has been serving as the Chair in the Department of Law Enforcement & Justice Administration at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. From 1992 to 2006 Dr. Ross taught criminal justice courses at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC and was the Director of the Forensic Sciences Minor. He was the [...]
In December 2006 the NYS Legislature was told that OCFS’ physical intervention policy was unsafe, in 2010, 2 staff fatalities and several million in worker comp. claims later, they’re finally investigating State Senator George Maziarz and members of a Senate Republican Task Force on Juvenile Justice reform today held a public forum to investigate growing concerns [...]
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Experts agree that prone restraint of an agitated person cannot possibly lead to sudden death due to hypoxia. Due to the controversial nature of a sudden in custody restraint death, numerous case and retrospective studies, incident reports, and monographs have been published since the 1980s in order to bring awareness of the subject matter. While [...]