NEW YORK (AP) — Not five minutes after police slipped a “spit hood” over Daniel Prude’s head, the 41-year-old Black man went limp. A week later, he was taken off life support. Prude’s suffocation in ...

The death of a disabled man could spell the end of spit hood use on prisoners in a hospital setting, with the corner ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — When Tim Peters started banging on a neighbor’s door and shouting about religion just before sunrise with a beer bottle in his hand, someone called the county sheriff. Neither the ...

The NT coroner makes nine recommendations following an inquest into the deaths of two disabled Aboriginal brothers who spent ...

A man died early Friday while in the custody of Phoenix police after cops placed a spit mask on him. Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Vincent Cole said in a news release that officers responded to a ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who died after he was placed in a spit hood and restrained in a Missouri prison was motionless for nearly 10 minutes before a nurse checked on him, prison video ...

The use of "ineffective" spit hoods to prevent disease transmission is not justified in prisons, police watch houses or hospitals, a coroner says. In a report on the death in custody of an Aboriginal ...

Two years to the week after a trans woman died while being transported to a hospital by Dallas police and paramedics, her family is suing. LaDamonyon DeeDee Hall, 47, a Black transgender woman, was ...

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other ...

Spit hoods, also called masks, socks or nets, briefly became part of the national debate about police use of force in 2020, when 41-year-old Daniel Prude suffocated after police in Rochester, New York ...