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 understand that the VirginianCorrections Board is considering changes to the regulations governing the shackling of pregnant prisoners. Please discontinue this practice in state and local facilities. Such a practice violates the human dignity of the prisoner and her baby. Otherjurisdictions have outlawed such shackling with to harm to staff.Please end this demeaning kind of prisoner restraint.
Sheila Gorg