Sentence examples for punitive restraints from inspiring English sources

Judge Enslen ordered an immediate ban on punitive restraints in three Jackson prisons holding 4,500 inmates.

Therefore it is both surprising and admirable that Judge Richard Enslen found the constitutional basis for prohibiting the use by prison officials of punitive restraints.

These organizations used torturous tactics like depriving patients of food and sleep, isolation, attack therapy, beatings, and punitive restraints (some of which went on for so long that teens soiled themselves) in a deliberate attempt to break down teens' personalities, which was supposed to end their addictions.

Fortunately, the bill does still include provisions for national standards, a federal ban on the use of "acts of physical or mental abuse designed to humiliate, degrade, or undermine a child's self-respect," and on the use of punitive restraint and isolation.

Justice Department attorneys and Guantánamo officials vigorously disputed that any aspect of the feeding, the extraction or the restraint is punitive.

Despite thousands of reports of abuse in such programs--including torturous tactics like food deprivation, sleep deprivation, vicious and extended emotional attacks, sexual humiliation and punitive use of isolation and restraint--the programs have remained unregulated and have suffered few legal consequences.

The players have already agreed to shorter contracts, smaller raises, a more punitive luxury tax and several other new restraints on team spending.

(Two key issues to watch: what sort of constitutional restraints, if any, there are on punitive damages, and how much scrutiny judges should give to initial pleadings to determine whether a federal lawsuit ought to go forward).

Correspondence from consumers on the panel indicated that the crisis care they had received in hospitals was often punitive, and might include being placed in physical restraints, spoken to unkindly, and told they were wasting the hospital's time.

When the restraint chairs were first introduced to Guantanamo in December 2005, the force-feeding process was reportedly especially punitive.

There are currently no federal standards for the use of seclusion and restraint in schools, and only 17 states have explicit laws that limit the use of such punitive measures.