Wyoming Life Resource Center Faces Allegations Surrounding Concealed Restraint Chair

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates A Wyoming facility for the developmentally disabled confined residents in restraint chairs more than 100 times during a four-year period, while taking steps to conceal use of the controversial devices, a new report alleges. Investigators with a disability advocacy group asked state officials in 2011 whether the Wyoming Life Resource Center in Lander was using the chairs to subdue residents. Although officials denied there were any restraint chairs at the facility, investigators say they found documents indicating the chairs has been used as many as 121 times between 2009 until June 2013, when . . .