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 |
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.