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 ...

In a report issued Wednesday, Finland’s Parliamentary Ombudsman called on social and health care services in North Karelia, eastern Finland, to immediately halt the use of so-called caged beds at ...

The 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 lock ...