A central feature in our lives with companion animals is the use of force. Instances of physical restraint in the home are ubiquitous. We hold our animals still so often that we might not even be ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — A group of parents, educators, experts, and advocates converged on the State Capitol Thursday to speak in defense of a new state law that bars school employees and contractors from ...

OUT WHEN IT COMES TO SECURING OUR SCHOOLS. SOMETHING THAT STAFF SHOULD HAVE MORE POWER TO PHYSICALLY RESTRAIN STUDENTS. THAT’S THE GOAL OF A NEW BILL IN THE UNICAMERAL. BUT OPPONENTS SAY IT GOES TOO ...

Minnesota students can't be held in a prone position or subjected to "comprehensive restraint on the head, neck and across most of the torso" under a new state law — and law enforcement officials are ...

One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...

The Minnesota Department of Education is recommending schools be allowed to continue the use of a controversial physical restraint, used to subdue or calm agitated students, until 2017. Current state ...

Principal Tom Drake holds the door open for a student at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury last year. Schools in the Harwood Union Unified School District, including Crossett Brook, have come ...