No one knows how many Colorado students are shut inside rooms, alone, at school. But Riley Ellis-Beach knows that it happened to her son. He was a small kindergartener, barely 30 pounds, with big ...

The practice of secluding or restraining children when they get agitated has long been a controversial practice in public schools. Now, new data show that it's more common than previously understood, ...

Incidents of seclusion -- when a student is alone and prevented from leaving an enclosed space -- more than doubled last year in Wake County schools, new data shows. Wake County Public School System ...

A Connecticut school district is planning to expand its blue, or seclusion rooms, in the next fiscal year, drawing concerns about how education money is spent as well as transparency in how often they ...

In December, Rose found herself participating in her first seclusion. The student she was working with wasn’t physically aggressive, just loud, and Rose’s plan had been to escort her into the special ...

The 66-page report is based on a nearly two-year investigation by Marie-France Pelletier, who is an independent officer of the legislature.

Late last year, a patient at Oregon State Hospital walked up to a nurse’s station and said he was having trouble breathing. After taking the man’s vitals, nursing staff helped him walk to a seclusion ...

Adam spent 12 days in a seclusion room in August 2022 at the Restigouche hospital ... The report noted patients trying to get attention of staff by yelling, banging on the door, writing “Help Me” with ...

State lawmakers have tried in recent years to better monitor and oversee seclusion, which means shutting a student inside a ...

“Our son still brings up the opportunity room and being in seclusion,” more than a year after leaving the school, Anthony Beach said. “We’re still kind of sifting through the damages to our son and ...