A lawyers’ group is campaigning to end the degrading practice of criminal defendants being hauled into courtrooms placed in handcuffs and with ropes around their waists to stop them from fleeing. The ...

ENCINITASENCINITAS — For most of his life, locks and keys have had a hold on Mark Lyons’ heart. He’s run a North County locksmith business for decades and he’s a safecracker-on-call for local law ...

The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects. In the age of easy 3D printing and other DIY innovations, that assumption may no ...

On Jan. 14, 1995, Mary Catherine Edwards, 31, a beloved elementary school teacher, was found dead in her townhouse in Beaumont, Texas. Her parents found her. It was a terrible scene: she was in her ...

Marion County, Indiana Sheriff's Deputy John Durm was reportedly killed after suspect Orlando Mitchell strangled him with his handcuffs, court documents claim. A video allegedly shows Mitchell placing ...

Police across France threw away their handcuffs on Thursday and Friday to protest a new ban on chokeholds and neck restraint. In Rennes, police locked their cuffs to the fence outside the prefecture.

US President Donald Trump posts a photo of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in custody on a US naval ship and wearing both a blindfold and handcuffs. “Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima,” Trump ...

Few would dare argue that ABC Family is cable TV's home for the holidays, and practically no one would attempt to challenge that the romantic comedy film Holiday In Handcuffs is the jewel of the ...