End the indiscriminate shackling of kids in Kansas courtrooms.

Several district courts in Kansas regularly restrain every youth brought to the court from local juvenile detention facilities. This practice of indiscriminate shackling of youth during court proceedings – which usually involves use of leg irons, belly chains, and handcuffs – raises serious concerns related to the youths’ due process rights and psychological health and offers only de minimis security benefits. Kansas should end this practice and create a presumption against shackling of juvenile defendants in court.

Click here to read Kansas Appleseed's report to the Kansas Supreme Court.
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Table of attachments.
Attachments A through Z.
Attachments AA through EE.