Sep. 3—A Spofford man has received suspended sentences after pleading guilty to felony charges of criminal restraint and second-degree assault for confining and harming a girl in 2019, when he was 17.

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal jury on Wednesday returned a guilty verdict on six of seven charges against a suspended Georgia sheriff accused of violating the constitutional rights of people in his custody ...

ATLANTA — Suspended Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill was in federal court Monday, arguing the indictments against him should be thrown out because he had no idea using a restraint chair was ...

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Suspended Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill told jurors Thursday he stands by the decisions he made to order six men into restraint chairs in his jail in 2019 and 2020. Hill's ...

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The newly reported details of patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion spanned from 2020 through 2023. The deaths happened at hospitals in every state except Alaska, with some individual ...