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 |
I would urge you to adopt regulations doing away with the practice of restraining inmates during pregnancy especially where it might put the woman or her child at risk. I can't imagine that there would ever be a need to employ restraints that would imperil the fetus. You perhaps can imagine, but surely with a little more imagination you can find another way to accomplish whatever it is without inhumanity.
Harold HOughton