Is your safety in jeopardy because of a restraint device jail guards are no longer allowed to use in one county? It all has to do with the ban on leg shackles during hospital visits by inmates and ...

Allegheny County Jail corrections officers may be allowed to use leg shackles when taking incarcerated people to medical appointments if county council approves a measure repealing a portion of the ...

This article originally appeared in The Crime Report,and is published in a cooperative venture with Crimesider. When Skye Gosselin came to the Biddeford District Court on the coast of southern Maine ...

Exploring a sunken slave ship was beyond any dream Michael Cottman could have imagined as a young child in his native Detroit. Fascination with the underwater adventure TV series “Sea Hunt” lit a fire ...

In the spring of 2021, Russia's Interior Ministry placed a tender for nearly 15,000 sets of shackles at a cost of almost 70 million rubles ($1.1 million). "Shackles are not widely used today," a ...

Museum of London Archaeology researchers have identified the remains of a shackled slave in Britain during the Roman Empire, providing "unquestionable" evidence of "the role slavery has played ...

Archaeologists excavating the 2,200-year-old ruins of a gold mining village in Ghozza found two sets of metal shackles, a study said. Photo from B. Redon via Redon (2025) and Antiquity Publications ...

In the second century BCE, Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides wrote about the severe working conditions of the criminals and prisoners of war who toiled in ancient Egyptian gold mines: “And ...

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