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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2/28/12  12:20 pm
Commenter: Kathleen Malone, Mary Immaculate Hospital

Shackling of Pregxdnant Inmates
 

I am writing to urge you to oppose shackling of pregnant inmates as this is inhumane treatment which can result in injury to the baby and to the mother.  There is little danger of the woman escaping or doing harm to anyone in the process of delivering a child.

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