Shackled for weeks: Federal report finds abuse of restraints in prisons

Jul 14, 2025 - 17:05
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Shackled for weeks: Federal report finds abuse of restraints in prisons
A screenshot from a video of officers at the U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., holding an incarcerated person in a four-point restraint.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

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