Restraint chairs are a little-known tool employed by Alabama jailers and one tied to dozens of jail deaths in the U.S. The U.N. Committee Against Torture two decades ago urged the U.S. to abolish their us. Yet they are still used in jails in many states.
A jailhouse video shows deputies carrying a man, nearly lifeless, and loading him into the back of a patrol car in north Alabama. Hours later Tony Mitchell was pronounced dead at the hospital. Attorneys for his family say he died from hypothermia. They say the jail likely strapped Mitchell into a restraint chair and left him in a freezer or some other frigid environment for hours.
Restraint chairs are a little-known tool employed by Alabama jailers and one tied to dozens of jail deaths in the United States. The United Nations Committee Against Tortureto abolish the chairs. Yet they are still used in jails in many states. “What if start bashing their head into the wall? Bashing their head into the bars? Getting a running start into the wall,” said Jones. “That might be an example of when we use a restraint chair.”
In May of 2021, Jeremy Lee Thompson, 34, of Geneva County died after having a heart attack when he was on methamphetamine. Instead of being taken to get medical help, police brought Thompson to the Geneva County Jail where he was placed in a restraint chair, a lawsuit alleges. Thompson was given a dose of Ketamine and taken to the emergency room where he was diagnosed with a heart attack. Doctors tried to resuscitate him, but he did not survive.requested policies for use of restraint chairs from Walker and Geneva Counties but the counties did not immediately share their policies.
“I’m kinda nervous all the time, man,” he said. “You know, I look unapproachable, but it’s really because I’m stressed and full of anxiety.reports the use of restraint chairs
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