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 |
Pregnant inmates deserve respect and reasonable comfort for themselves and for the growing baby in their womb. They are already incarcerated and humiliated. For their physical and mental health I ask you, as a regular voter in Virginia, to unshackle pregnant inmates by law.