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  8:02 am
Commenter: Jack Payden-Travers

Schakeling of Pregnant women
 

It is time to stop this practice. Please use your authority to ban the schakeling of pregnant women while in labor in the Commonwealth of Virginia regardless of which facility they happen to be incarcerated in.

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