Action | Amend Minimum Standards for Jails and Lockups to add requirements on restraint of pregnant offenders |
Stage | Final |
Comment Period | Ended on 5/7/2014 |
Please support limiting the use of certain physical restraints on female inmates before and during labor and immediately after childbirth.
Restraints increase the risk of accidentally tripping and falling and harming the child, who is certainly innocent of any crime.