When did police start using handcuffs and leg and belly chains for regular prisoners?
Question: It seems that when people are stopped now, you will find in the chains. Watching films of 20-30 years ago, it seems that it was almost always just handcuffs? Did they ever use anything else on the prisoners, or if you go to court? Is it too much the way it is now?
Answer: Is a guideline circumstances. However, with staff reductions and more ordinary people trying to judge a run for it or go nuts (as the case of Georgia), where many people have been killed. In anticipation is a heck of a lot better view, then behind.

Some of them got off the bus wearing belly chains and leg irons. Those disruptive inmates were sent back to Pennsylvania within days, but not before causing ...








