NY: New York May Soon Bar the Shackling of Children in Family Court
Imprint – June 10, 2021
Now, after nearly a decade of advocacy by Kramer’s organization and others – and a growing national consensus that courts should eliminate the use of “hardware restraints” on youth during hearings – New York state is poised to ban the practice. By Thursday, both houses of the Democrat-led state Legislature had passed a bill that adds a new section to the Family Court Act, prohibiting the use of “handcuffs, chains, shackles, irons, straitjackets and other restraints” on those 21 and younger appearing in family court.
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