From The Crime Report:
Congress should ban the use of restraints on pregnant women in all corrections institutions, barring “substantial security or safety concern[s],” argue Sierra Wollen and Angelique Day of the University of Washington School of Social Work.
In an online paper posted in Academia Letters, Wollen and Day maintain that shackles and other restraints on pregnant women in custody pose health and development risks to both mothers and babies.
Several thousand pregnant women are currently held in federal and state prisons, the authors said?many of whom are restrained during transport or when receiving medical treatment. Continue Reading >>>
|
|
|
|
