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 |
In Virginia jails and prisons there have been numerous cases of women and their fetuses being damaged by shackling during labor and delivery. I urge the Board of Corrections to adopt strict regulations forbidding shackling or otherwise unnecessarily restraining pregnant or nursing women. Women in labor are not a flight risk, shackling is barbaric and unnecessary.