WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – This week, lawmakers are making a last-minute effort to revive a bill to make changes to how teens can be restrained. Senate Bill 504 in Kansas would stop the use of the “prone” ...

For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for ...

If John Neville had been in a state prison as officers wrestled him to the floor of a cell and held him face down, they would have been required to get him off of his stomach after gaining control.

NEW ORLEANS — The cries for help, the gasps for breath just out of reach, they’re gut wrenching to hear in videos that have been surfacing in recent years of people dying under the weight of police ...

DENVER — Legislation to limit the use of prone – or facedown – restraint passed its first big test at the Colorado State Capitol Tuesday. The bill, crafted after a lengthy 9NEWS investigation ...

A federal appeals court denied qualified immunity to five Sedgwick County juvenile detention officers involved in the 2021 death of 17-year-old Cedric “CJ” Lofton at the Juvenile Intake Assessment ...

Two officers stood on Fernando Rodriguez’s outstretched arms, handcuffs connecting his wrists. Another stood on the shackles binding the 24-year-old’s legs. A fourth officer kneeled on Rodriguez’s ...