Shackling Pregnant Women Spurs Prison-Reform Push | Womens eNews
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Shawanna Lumsey, who in 2003 was serving time while pregnant in an Arkansas prison for credit card fraud, received minimal pre-natal care during her incarceration. Later she was shackled to a hospital bedpost while giving birth to a 9 pound, 7 ounce baby.
"We are human beings, even when we are in prison," Lumsey was quoted in an October report on the mistreatment of pregnant women in prison produced by two Washington-based groups, the National Women's Law Center and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. "Prisoners still have human rights. And shackling takes those basic human rights away."
Yesterday, advocates for incarcerated mothers and pregnant women joined an online forum to discuss the study, which gave 36 states failing grades for using various forms of shackling on pregnant women during transportation, labor and delivery and postpartum recuperation.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/incarceration/101108/shackling-pregnant-women-s...
"We are human beings, even when we are in prison," Lumsey was quoted in an October report on the mistreatment of pregnant women in prison produced by two Washington-based groups, the National Women's Law Center and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. "Prisoners still have human rights. And shackling takes those basic human rights away."
Yesterday, advocates for incarcerated mothers and pregnant women joined an online forum to discuss the study, which gave 36 states failing grades for using various forms of shackling on pregnant women during transportation, labor and delivery and postpartum recuperation.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/incarceration/101108/shackling-pregnant-women-s...
