Shackling of Pregnant Inmates Draws Ire, Suits -- Jailers Say They're Felons, Dangerous Even Birthing
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › August 26, 2009
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NEW YORK - For nearly four hours before she gave birth, Venita Pinckney had a chain wrapped around her swollen abdomen. Her ankles and hands were shackled.
The 37-year-old was in a maximum-security prison for violating parole. An officer told her the use of restraints on pregnant inmates was "procedure."See the full content of this document
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Shackling of Pregnant Inmates Draws Ire, Suits -- Jailers Say They're Felons, Dangerous Even Birthing
"I'm saying to myself, 'I feel like a pregnant animal,'" said Pinckney, who gave birth to a boy at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York state last year.
At state prisons around the country, jailed women ar...See the full content of this document
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