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Colorado House lawmakers have rejected a bill to ban a restraint method linked to the deaths of four people in state custody in the past decade.
The method known as “prone restraint” is one in which a person is laid face-down and held or tied. Lawmakers voted Tuesday to postpone Senate Bill 49 indefinitely.
Prone restraint is sometimes used in prisons or mental-health hospitals to subdue unruly patients. The method was blamed for the and three others who have died in prisons or mental-health facilities since 2001.
Democratic Rep. Jim Riesberg of Greeley said before the vote that the bill was unnecessary because prone restraint already is banned at mental-health hospitals.
