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RESTRAINTS

► 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:

2009 RESTRAINTS & SECLUSION IN SCHOOLS Click here
  Another child dies while being restrained

Faith Finley, 17, suffocated after being restrained in a face-down position that has been banned by one state agency. Click here (scroll down for article)
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  Video    America's kids deserve better than this  
  Video   Mothers are finally heard - their autistic children restrained and abused at school  
  Video   Restraint and Seclusion - Deadly restraints  
  Video   Children forced into cell-like rooms - son dies in seclusion  
 

Video   Dodd discusses new report on use of seclusion and restraint in schools      

  
 

Video   Abuse of restraint and seclusion "Zach was one of the lucky ones - he didn't die"
 

  
Graphic Prone Restraints (click here)
List Potentially abusive schools (click here)
Database Database of Children Who Died During Restraints
 		 (click here)
Report Citizens Commission on Human Rights: Desert Hills Center for Youth and Families - Even Under Investigation, Abuses Continue
 		 (click here)
Senate Office Research

Seclusion and Restraints: A Failure, Not a Treatment
Protecting Mental Health Patients from Abuses
 

 (click here)
Report on Restraints Citizens Commission on Human Rights:
Interim Report on Restraint Deaths in Psychiatric Institutions – A Culture of Violence & Terrorism
 		 (click here)
Report on Restraints California report on the use of prone restraints
 		 (click here)
June 20, 2008 Autistic boy smothered at school 'I don't understand how this happened,' father says of youngster's death (click here)
June 20, 2008 Blanket suffocates boy in Quebec (click here)
June 19, 2008 Autistic boy likely suffocated: coroner's report (click here)
June 18, 2008 Father sues over face-down restraint of autistic boy (click here)
BLOG Stop Think Autism Blog (click here)
July 9, 2007 When Discipline Starts a Fight
Pressured to Handle Disabled Children, A School Tries Restraints
 		 (click here)
July 9, 2007 Report Details Youth Center Patient's Death (restraint death - Omega Leach Main Page) (click here)
June 23, 2007 Restraint law for public schools passes [Connecticut] (click here)
May 9, 2007 School board to launch review of student restraint policy (click here)
May 3, 2007 Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion in Mental Health Settings:
Questions and Answers From Psychiatric Nurse
 		 (click here)
March 11, 2007 A call for change, for Angie (click here)
January 28, 2007 BOY GOT BAGGED FOLKS BLAST SCHOOL 'BODY SOCK' - UPDATE ON BODY SOX (click here)
December 22, 2006 Family of boy who died in Va. group home files suit (click here)
December 19, 2006 City sued over restrained teen's coma (click here)
December 16, 2006 Boy in coma; cops' hogtie under probe (click here)
December 16, 2006 Body Sox controversy continues (click here)
December 15, 2006 Letter explains schools' use of Body Sox on pre-kindergarteners (click here)
December 15, 2006 Clinic, staffer enter 'no contest' pleas in conjunction with child's death (click here)
December 14, 2006 Mom Admits To Suffocating Son In Homeless Shelter (click here)
December 14, 2006 Parents Criticize Restraints In Schools : At Hearing, They Seek Changes In State Law
 		 (click here)
December 13, 2006 Teaching tool or restraining device? (click here)
December 11, 2006 IN OUR OPINION: Set clear rules on student restraint (click here)
December 10, 2006 How to restrain unruly students : In wake of 2003 deaths, state poised to adopt rules
 		 (click here)
December 8, 2006 A way to safely restrain students? Bereaved mom at odds with state
 		 (click here)
December 8, 2006 Restraint ban sought (click here)
December 8, 2006 CMS: Rights rule on use of restraints and seclusion (click here)
December 1, 2006 Restraint death charges filed : Counseling center, staffer accused of negligence in death of girl, 7, in Rice Lake, Wis.
 		 (click here)
June 10, 2006 Charges pondered in death of girl, 7: Physical restraint at facility reviewed
 		 (click here)
June 9, 2006 Restraint leads to homicide: Examiner: Death caused by holding down child
 		 (click here)
May 9, 2006 Fatal 'restraint'
 		 (click here)
April 19, 2006 Advocacy Groups Seek Ban on Prone Restraint; 'Unreasonable Risk of Death for Children'
 		 (click here)
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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February 17, 2006 BBC: Child 'jail' restraint criticised: The inquiry was launched after the death of Gareth Myatt, 15
 		 (click here)
February 16, 2006
 		 Tape Released Showing Teen Beaten at Boot Camp
Video Shows Guards Restraining and Punching Boy
 		 (click here)
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.
 		 (click here)
December 6, 2005
 		 12-year-old Kerrville boy who was restrained by staff at an
Ingram camp for disabled youngsters died
 		 (click here)

May 7, 2005

 Boy's Pleas for Aid Denied: Inhaler Withheld, Restrained Teen Died
 		 (click here)
August 23, 2004 A Year Is Long Enough To Gather Evidence In Restraint Death Case, Boy's Family Says
 		 (click here)
June 15, 2004

Restraint Bill Bears Victim's Name
 

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January 2, 2004

Renner-Lewis Family Sues School Over Son's Restraint Death
 

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November 17, 2003

Parents Still Have Few Answers On Son's Death, Restraint
 

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October 24, 2003

Mother Sues Institution And Hospital Over Matthew Goodman's Death
 

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August 28, 2003 Teen Dies After Seizure And Restraint
 		 (click here)
May 18, 2003 Competing Theories Explain Teen's Restraint-Related Death
 		 (click here)
May 18, 2003 A Texas Toll: Deaths Attributed to Restraints
 		 (click here)
May 18, 2003

When discipline turns fatal: Texas lacks tough law on prone restraint that's banned in three states
 

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May 18, 2003

Federal study found restraints lack sufficient regulation
 

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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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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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October 17, 2002 Death of teen at therapy facility investigated Richardson 17-year-old died being restrained by staff in Hill Country
 		 (click here)
September 19, 2002

Teen's Death Prompts New Restraint And Seclusion Measure
 

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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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September 21, 2000 A 15-year-old Scappoose boy dies while being restrained at a high desert wilderness school
 		 (click here)
April 18, 2000 29 kids in 2 1/2 years died in state's care-- 2 stopped breathing while restrained recently
 		 (click here)
March 21, 2000 Autistic Boy Dies While Being Restrained by Attendants
 		 (click here)
February 8, 2000 Texas Probes "Restraint" Death of Young Patient
 		 (click here)


MORE INFORMATION REGARDING RESTRAINTS:



   In the Name of Treatment
  A Parent's Guide to Protecting
  Your Child From the Use of
  Restraint, Aversive Interventions,
  and Seclusion
________

    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."
   ● Restraint Asphyxia: Silent Killer: by Charly Miller
   ● Restraint Asphyxia: by Charly Miller
    ● In the Name of Treatment: by the Alliance to Prevent
      Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusion
   ● Practicing Restraints: by Scott Kirkwood
   ● In Harm's Way: Dangerous and Deadly Restraint
      (series)
   ● List of children who have died in residential youth
     facilities       

 


Restraint Injuries Home
   Suffocation from Restraints
   Suffocation from Restraining
   Psychiatric Ward Restraint Death
   Child Camp Restraint Death
   Improper Restraints
   Improper Restraining 
   Free Case Review
 

 

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

  In Harm's Way: Use of physical force on troublesome kids
  unchecked;   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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