MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. – A Warren man arrested on suspicion of armed robbery slipped out of his belly chain restraint while in lockup and used it to attack a deputy who was checking on a sick inmate, ...

Prison guards are upset that a Skagit County man who killed six people in 2008 is able move without restraints while outside his maximum security cell. Last week, Isaac Zamora was transferred from ...

Chains rattle lightly, clinking and jangling, as an inmate walks. A waist shackle, also called a “belly chain,” loops around his or her hips, locking into handcuffs in front of the body. Going back to ...

Marcos Santiago heard the clatter of metal chains outside cell 201 next door. Locked in the most isolated unit at Lee federal prison in western Virginia, he knew that sound meant officers were ...

It’s obvious that placing a criminal defendant in handcuffs and leg shackles runs the risk of prejudicing a jury. But even when only a judge is present, a policy of shackling a defendant violates his ...