T he cage looks like a dog kennel, but it’s bolted onto the posts of a narrow hospital bed. When a psychiatric patient is judged to be in need of restraint, orderlies bundle him into the bed and ...

Inside were cage beds, each 5ft (1.5m) tall. There were four in all, each containing a youngster who was clearly severely mentally and physically disabled. They lay on a mattress with metal bars ...

A Czech minister has questioned claims that cage-like beds are still being used for children in social care homes a year after being banned. An undercover BBC team found children kept in high-bar beds ...

An international advocacy group for the mentally ill says some psychiatric institutions in Central Europe continue to use an archaic and cruel device called the "cage bed." The Mental Disability ...

The beds were occupied by clients with severe epilepsy, as a way to prevent them from falling out of bed during seizures, the report stated. Another three clients at two residential care homes for ...

Third woman charged after 11-year-old special-needs boy found living in makeshift cage made out of metal beds Caregiver Gloria Jane Brown, 64, charged with first-degree cruelty to children and ...