Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Corrections
 
Board
State Board of Local and Regional Jails
 
chapter
Minimum Standards for Jails and Lockups [6 VAC 15 ‑ 40]
Action Amend Minimum Standards for Jails and Lockups to add requirements on restraint of pregnant offenders
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 2/29/2012
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2/13/12  5:59 pm
Commenter: Doreen DeVore, Asbury United Methodist Women, Harrisonburg

shackling pregnant inmates
 

I support ending the practice of shakling pregnant inmates during labor and delivery. Labor and Delivery is too intimate a process to undergo in shackels. In an ideal labor the mother is fully able to cooperate with the process, shackling interferes with that cooperation. 

 

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