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 | Ends 2/29/2012 |
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2/6/12 9:51 pm
Commenter:
Heidi Rugg
*
Shackling women in labor
Shackling women in labor
Please, please discontinue the barbaric practic of shackling or otherwise restraining women while they are in labor. A laboring woman is in a vulnerable position -- and the life of her child is on the line, too! I am ashamed and appalled that our state allows this.
* Nonregistered public user




