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 |
As a person of faith I am strongly opposed to the use of restraints on prisioners when in labor, or giving birth and in post-partum care.
Please amend the regulation to prohibit the use of restraints when the women are in labor, giving birth or undergoing post-partum care. I know of no adverse consequence in doing so.
Howard W. Hjort