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 |
It is time Virginia stop treating pregnant women prisoners like animals or slaves!!!! This practice was obviously developed by men who have no idea what it is like to give birth!!!!!!!! I would like to know how far a woman in the middle of contractions or birth would get running out of the birthing room and what idiot couldn't catch her. As a human being, a Christian, a woman, a mother, and a voter, it is time to end such practices even for prisoners in Virginia. I cannot imagine that sane people in Corrections would want this practice to continue, either.