In 2010, the UN adopted a rule regarding incarcerated pregnant women: "instruments of restraint shall never be used … during labour, during birth and immediately after birth." In 2018, the Federal First Step Act banned shackling pregnant women, women giving birth, and women caring for newborns; but the law does not extend to local and state jails, where 85% of the incarcerated women in America are locked up. As a result, the practice of shackling women before, during and after childbirth is rampant across America, and in the majority (61%) of these circumstances, the women are shackled not because of any specific danger, but because the facility has a policy that insists that they be in chains.
Two Years After A Federal Law Banning Shackling Women During Childbirth Was Passed, Prisoners In America Are Still Giving Birth
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Sun, 01/26/2020 - 9:29am
Topics: federal first step act america congress september incarcerated lori yearwood's guardian harriette davis women corona she s berkeley pregnant lori teresa yearwood/the guardian thanks fipi lele image cc in davis california years law childbirth trauma local daughter doctor require state shackled practice
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