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Correction officers and advocates press council to review hospital leg‑shackle policy and petition signature validity
Summary
Union leaders and community speakers urged council to address an unintended public‑safety consequence of a proposed leg‑shackle policy for incarcerated patients and raised concerns about the validity of signatures on a petition tied to the measure.
Union representatives and community speakers used the public comment period to press Allegheny County Council on practical and legal questions tied to hospital leg‑shackle policy and a related petition circulating in the county.
Brian Engler, president of the correction officers' union at the county jail, told council he has urged county officials to revisit a plan that would have hospital or outside security apply leg shackles to people in custody when they are treated at hospitals. Engler said the union believes that practice would violate…
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