A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...

CCHR says legislative protections are needed prohibiting chemical and physical restraint and punitive seclusion rooms, not only in the U.S. but globally. Mental health industry watchdog says ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

When one of Canada's leading public health journalist, Andre Picard wanted to talk to me for an article in the Globe and Mail about my personal experience with restraints, I was honoured. Honoured and ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommended guidance and supervision to a mental healthcare institution that ...

Guidelines from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care say an order for clinical restraint or seclusion “is not to exceed 12 hours.” And the U.S. Justice Department in 2013 found a ...

We should push our governments to better report on who’s being involuntarily committed and why, and if they’re more often ...