Coroners, courts, regulators and inspectors have recorded what restraint does to the people it is used on. This casebook publishes those records as short, sourced case pages: what happened, what went wrong, and what it means for the people running the service.
Every entry states its confidence, what could not be verified, and where the source runs out. Where a case is still live, we hold it. Where a name cannot be justified, we do not print it. Publications are labelled as publications, because a national count is not an incident.
22 case entries and 8 publications.
Seven of the ten heaviest PAVA users are youth prisons
The chairs of the prison monitoring boards wrote to the prisons minister about the direction of use of force, and put a number on the youth estate's share…
The chain that stayed on through an endoscopy
A prisoner vomiting blood was escorted to hospital in a chain that came off only when staff told the officers he was dying.