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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2/27/12  3:30 pm
Commenter: Harold Houghton

restraints on pregnant inmates
 

I would urge you to adopt regulations doing away with the practice of restraining inmates during pregnancy especially where it might put the woman or her child at risk.  I can't imagine that there would ever be a need to employ restraints that would imperil the fetus.  You perhaps can imagine, but surely with a little more imagination you can find another way to accomplish whatever it is without inhumanity.

Harold HOughton

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