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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2/6/12  9:01 pm
Commenter: Lisa Taranto

Stop shackling women during childbirth, or in any clinic setting.
 

Where is our humanity, when we shackle women, under any circumstances, during child birth? Where is our grace? When did we become so harsh and unforgiving? This is not the middle east. 

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