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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2/14/12  3:39 pm
Commenter: don & mary faulkner

Shackling of women in Child birth
 

This is entirely unnecessary and represents cruel and unusual punishment affecting the life of the mother and the child for the rest of all their lives. Advocating for and/or allowing this treatment of the incarcerated recasts the light  of the time of slavery and their treatment on our Legislators, the DOC, its employees, Virginia and all its citizens It must be stopped.

Don and Mary Faulkner, Lexington, Va

CommentID: 22554