ST PAUL, Minn. — A group of parents, educators, experts, and advocates converged on the State Capitol Thursday to speak in defense of a new state law that bars school employees and contractors from ...

A central feature in our lives with companion animals is the use of force. Instances of physical restraint in the home are ubiquitous. We hold our animals still so often that we might not even be ...

Minnesota students can't be held in a prone position or subjected to "comprehensive restraint on the head, neck and across most of the torso" under a new state law — and law enforcement officials are ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — State Capitol Republicans Wednesday revived their call for a special session to clarify language on which physical restraints school resource officers can legally use on students ...

Jonathan Moore struggled to breathe when four teachers pinned him to the floor in a Ballston Spa elementary school. The fifth grader, who is autistic and nonverbal, was unable to call out to the staff ...

Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, “overwhelmingly failed” to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite ...

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 ...

Principal Tom Drake holds the door open for a student at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury last year. Schools in the Harwood Union Unified School District, including Crossett Brook, have come ...

Physical restraints in emergency departments (EDs) are used to keep staff and patients safe, but may lead to adverse physical consequences, such as aspiration, physical trauma and phycological harm of ...

Reduction in the use of physical restraints was seen after implementation of an evidence-based intervention program. Between December 2024 and January 2025 no physical restraint episodes occurred in ...

Although the use of physical restraint was generally uncommon in the emergency department (ED), Black patients were more likely to experience this during patient encounters compared with white ...