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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2/1/12  12:47 pm
Commenter: Joy Cipriano, citizen --- WOMAN - MOTHER!

Stop Treating Women Like Animals!
 

It is time Virginia stop treating pregnant women prisoners like animals or slaves!!!! This practice was obviously developed by men who have no idea what it is like to give birth!!!!!!!! I would like to know how far a woman in the middle of contractions or birth would get running out of the birthing room and what idiot couldn't catch her. As a human being, a Christian, a woman, a mother, and a voter, it is time to end such practices even for prisoners in Virginia. I cannot imagine that sane people in Corrections would want this practice to continue, either.

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