| 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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It is good to see that the board is deciding to address this rather antiquaited behavoir. The chance of a prisioner escaping while in labor seems extremely small. I cannot imagine that it is necessary for keeping the prisioner inline in such a circumstance.