A federal inspection of a Connecticut hospital revealed that a patient with severe physical and mental issues died as the result of being held in physical restraints, as recorded in the patient’s ...

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 ...

New data from Massachusetts’ state mental hospital in Worcester is raising concerns about how long patients are being physically restrained. In an adult care unit in the Department of Mental Health’s ...

"They basically tied me to the rack, and I was a prisoner in my own body. Thinking back on it...it's just crazy, and I can't believe that they did that to me." Craig Fisher Craig Fisher struggled to ...

One New York hospital’s security officers used a police-style “bent arm bar” hold on a pediatric patient under age 19, breaking her arm. Another hospital’s security team handcuffed a patient to a ...

Craig Fisher struggled to breathe as COVID-19 weakened his lungs last month, but he refused to seek hospital care despite knowing the decision could cost his life. After being improperly restrained at ...

Los Angeles General Medical Center restrains inpatients in its psychiatric unit at a rate higher than any other hospital in California — and more than 50 times the national average for inpatient ...

At least 50 hospital patients were improperly restrained in New York between 2015 and 2018, spanning men and women handcuffed, hit with batons, drugged, and left strapped to beds up to 12 hours ...