Syracuse, N.Y. — Two deputies handcuffed an 11-year-old girl on a Syracuse street corner earlier this month for at least six minutes as they searched for a girl involved in stealing a car. The ...

Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill to raise the age at which a child can be arrested and handcuffed. Current law allows kids as young as ten to be detained and prosecuted. S.B. 1542 would ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Governor Ned Lamont (D) on Thursday signed into law a bill forbidding law enforcement from using handcuffs to restrain anyone under the age of 14. The law will be effective ...

Lauryn Gouldin is the Crandall Melvin Professor of Law at the Syracuse University College of Law. Martin Feinman, a 1983 SU Law graduate, is former director of Juvenile Justice Training for the Legal ...