A 14-year-old girl in the care of the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services was placed in ankle shackles for a five-hour drive to a treatment facility to Missouri, a DCFS spokesman confirmed Tuesday afternoon. As a result, DCFS will terminate its contract with the transportation service, has suspended the employees involved in the decision to use the ankle shackles – a violation of the department's recent ban on the use of hard restraints – and asked the state's Office of the Inspector General to investigate. “On Feb.
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Tue, 02/11/2020 - 3:52pm
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