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 |
Please consider restricting the use of restraints on pregnant women. I believe this is a reasonable practice to institute, and provides pregnant women with additional protection for their health during the critical time of pregnancy, delivery and post-partum recovery. It also enables them to hold their babies, and bond with them, important to the lives of the babies and the mothers post-incarceration.
Thank you,
Joanne Hansinger