Doctors Asked Officers to Unshackle a Patient. They Refused for 26 Days.
A lawsuit challenges the police practice of shackling mentally ill arrestees in New York, sometimes for long periods, while they await arraignment in locked psychiatric wards. [Source]
Publication Date:Origin: nytimes.com
Category: Psychiatry and Psychiatrists
Topics: wards, psychiatric, locked, arraignment, await, while, periods, sometimes, arrestees, mentally, shackling, practice, police, challenges, lawsuit, Refused, Patient, Unshackle, Officers, Asked, Doctors
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/nyregion/nypd-shackle-mentally-ill.html