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‘It always escalated to the chair’: Allegheny County Jail used the restraint chair more than any other county jail in PA.

by Juliette Rihl February 4, 2021November 5, 2021

Update (3/6/2021): At the March 4 Jail Oversight Board meeting, Warden Orlando Harper reported to the board about restraint chair use. It was a deviation from what he typically shares at these meetings in response to the board asking for more information on how the jail uses the device following the original PublicSource report below. He said the […]