RESTRAINTS
Click on the link below to sign the Petition
to ban the use of
deadly face-down prone restraints on children and teens
► Articles regarding the use of
restraints on children (click here)
► Additional information regarding the use of restraints (click
here) ► List of
children who have died as a result of restraints (click
here)
Body Sox™ - Therapy or another
form of restraint?
(click
here)
Articles/reports regarding the use of restraints on children:
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Database |
Database of Children Who Died During Restraints
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(click
here) |
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Report |
Citizens Commission on Human Rights: Desert Hills
Center for Youth and Families - Even Under Investigation, Abuses
Continue
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(click
here) |
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Senate Office Research |
Seclusion and Restraints: A Failure,
Not a Treatment
Protecting Mental Health Patients from Abuses
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(click
here) |
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Report on Restraints |
Citizens Commission on Human Rights:
Interim Report on Restraint Deaths in Psychiatric Institutions – A
Culture of Violence & Terrorism
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(click
here) |
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July 9, 2007 |
When Discipline Starts a Fight
Pressured to Handle Disabled Children, A School Tries Restraints
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(click
here) |
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July 9, 2007 |
Report Details Youth Center Patient's
Death (restraint death -
Omega Leach Main Page) |
(click
here) |
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June 23, 2007 |
Restraint law for public schools passes
[Connecticut] |
(click
here) |
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May 9, 2007 |
School board to launch review of student
restraint policy |
(click
here) |
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May 3, 2007 |
Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion in
Mental Health Settings:
Questions and Answers From Psychiatric Nurse
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(click
here) |
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March 11, 2007 |
A call for change, for Angie |
(click
here) |
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January 28, 2007 |
BOY GOT BAGGED FOLKS BLAST SCHOOL 'BODY
SOCK' - UPDATE ON BODY SOX |
(click
here) |
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December 22, 2006 |
Family of boy who died in Va. group home
files suit |
(click
here) |
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December 19, 2006 |
City sued over restrained teen's coma |
(click
here) |
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December 16, 2006 |
Boy in coma; cops' hogtie under probe |
(click
here) |
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December 16, 2006 |
Body Sox controversy continues |
(click
here) |
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December 15, 2006 |
Letter explains schools' use of Body Sox
on pre-kindergarteners |
(click
here) |
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December 15, 2006 |
Clinic, staffer enter 'no contest' pleas
in conjunction with child's death |
(click
here) |
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December 14, 2006 |
Mom Admits To Suffocating Son In Homeless
Shelter |
(click
here) |
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December 14, 2006 |
Parents Criticize Restraints In Schools :
At Hearing, They Seek Changes In State Law
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(click
here) |
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December 13, 2006 |
Teaching
tool or restraining device? |
(click
here) |
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December 11, 2006 |
IN OUR OPINION: Set clear rules on student
restraint |
(click
here) |
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December 10, 2006 |
How to restrain unruly students : In wake
of 2003 deaths, state poised to adopt rules
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(click
here) |
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December 8, 2006 |
A way to
safely restrain students?
Bereaved mom at odds with state
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(click
here) |
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December 8, 2006 |
Restraint ban sought |
(click
here) |
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December 8, 2006 |
CMS: Rights rule on use of restraints and
seclusion |
(click
here) |
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December 1, 2006 |
Restraint death charges filed :
Counseling center, staffer accused of negligence in death of girl,
7, in Rice Lake, Wis.
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(click
here) |
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June 10, 2006 |
Charges pondered
in death of girl, 7: Physical restraint at
facility reviewed
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(click
here) |
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June 9, 2006 |
Restraint leads to homicide: Examiner:
Death caused by holding down child
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(click
here) |
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May 9, 2006 |
Fatal 'restraint'
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(click
here) |
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April 19, 2006 |
Advocacy Groups Seek Ban on
Prone Restraint; 'Unreasonable Risk of Death for Children'
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(click
here) |
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April 6, 2006 |
Mother seeks changes at center:
Allentown woman takes case to Capitol. Her son died
while at SummitQuest Academy after being restrained
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(click
here) |
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February 17, 2006 |
BBC: Child 'jail' restraint criticised:
The inquiry was launched after the death of Gareth Myatt, 15
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(click
here) |
February 16, 2006
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Tape Released Showing Teen Beaten at
Boot Camp
Video Shows Guards Restraining and Punching Boy
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(click
here) |
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February 9, 2006 |
Giavianni "Joey" Alteriz: Initial autopsy: Restrained teen was
suffocated
The autopsy showed evidence of a
traumatic injury to the left side of the teen's head, chest
compression, lesions inside his shoulders, and bleeding near his
shoulder blade, in his ribs and in his spinal area, the attorney
said.
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(click
here) |
December 6, 2005
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12-year-old Kerrville boy who was
restrained by staff at an
Ingram camp for disabled youngsters died
|
(click
here) |
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May 7, 2005 |
Boy's Pleas for Aid
Denied: Inhaler Withheld, Restrained Teen Died
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(click
here) |
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August 23, 2004 |
A Year Is Long Enough To Gather Evidence In
Restraint Death Case, Boy's Family Says
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(click
here) |
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June 15, 2004 |
Restraint Bill Bears Victim's
Name
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(click
here) |
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January 2, 2004 |
Renner-Lewis Family Sues
School Over Son's Restraint Death
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(click
here) |
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November 17, 2003 |
Parents Still Have Few
Answers On Son's Death, Restraint
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(click
here) |
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October 24, 2003 |
Mother Sues Institution And
Hospital Over Matthew Goodman's Death
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(click
here) |
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August 28, 2003 |
Teen Dies After Seizure And Restraint
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(click
here) |
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May 18, 2003 |
Competing Theories Explain Teen's
Restraint-Related Death
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(click
here) |
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May 18, 2003 |
A Texas Toll: Deaths Attributed to Restraints
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(click
here) |
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May 18, 2003 |
When discipline turns fatal:
Texas lacks tough law on prone restraint that's banned in
three states
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(click
here) |
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May 18, 2003 |
Federal study found
restraints lack sufficient regulation
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(click
here) |
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April 3, 2003 |
Committee passes bill banning
certain physical restraints: Father of teen who died
while restrained gives emotional testimony
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(click
here) |
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October 26, 2002 |
Teen died after banned
restraint used: Death at Mason County program not the first for company
that runs it
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(click
here) |
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October 17, 2002 |
Death of teen at therapy facility investigated
Richardson 17-year-old died being restrained by staff in Hill Country
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(click
here) |
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September 19, 2002 |
Teen's Death Prompts New
Restraint And Seclusion Measure
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(click
here) |
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September 21, 2000 |
Wilderness School Counselor
Charged in Death of Camper:
A 15-Year-Old Scappoose Boy Dies While Being Restrained at a High Desert
Wilderness School
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(click
here) |
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September 21, 2000 |
A 15-year-old Scappoose boy dies while being
restrained at a high desert wilderness school
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(click
here) |
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April 18, 2000 |
29 kids in 2 1/2 years died in state's care-- 2
stopped breathing while restrained recently
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(click here) |
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March 21, 2000 |
Autistic Boy Dies While Being
Restrained by Attendants
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(click
here) |
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February 8, 2000 |
Texas Probes "Restraint" Death of
Young Patient
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(click
here) |
MORE
INFORMATION REGARDING RESTRAINTS:
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In the Name of
Treatment
A Parent's
Guide to Protecting
Your Child From the Use of
Restraint, Aversive Interventions,
and Seclusion
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List of Restraint
Deaths |
DEADLY RESTRAINTS
Psychiatric nursing professor Wanda Mohr is a national expert
on the use
of restraint
with a published article and books on the subject. She said, "I come from the
proposition that every restraint is a treatment failure," said Mohr. "They're deadly,
and frankly, they don't work because if you look at the patterns, people are being
restrained over and
over again."
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Restraint Asphyxia: Silent Killer:
by Charly Miller
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Restraint Asphyxia:
by Charly Miller
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In the Name of Treatment: by the
Alliance to Prevent
Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusion
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Practicing Restraints:
by Scott Kirkwood
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In Harm's Way:
Dangerous and Deadly Restraint
(series)
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List of children
who have died in
residential youth
facilities
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Restraint Injuries Home
Suffocation from Restraints
Suffocation
from Restraining
Psychiatric Ward Restraint Death
Child
Camp Restraint Death
Improper Restraints
Improper Restraining
Free
Case Review
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DANGEROUS AND DEADLY RESTRAINTS
by Barbara White Stack
Giovanni "Joey" Aletriz - died after being restrained
List of children who have died,
many after being restrained
By Barbara White Stack
Pittsburg Post Gazette; September 20, 2005; Larrel Dallas' arms already
were
broken when the breath began to be pressed out of him ...
Two workers ... holding
him face down in the dirt, one on his legs, the other pinning the
14-year-old's arms
behind his back. Dallas heard the bones snap as one worker yanked his
hands
toward his head. His arms went numb. He feared for his life. "Can't
breathe, can't
breathe," he choked out. An asthma sufferer, he knew the panic of
breathlessness.
Unmoved by his pleas, the workers remained on top of him for 20 minutes.
"I just
closed my eyes," Dallas recounted. "I thought I was going to die."
Restraint Asphyxia
Silent Killer
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