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The use of shackles or restraints on pregnant women is a common practice in prisons and jails in the United States. [1] Shackling is defined as "using any physical restraint or mechanical device to control the movement of a prisoner's body or limbs, including handcuffs, leg shackles, and belly chains". [2]
While the experience of giving birth while in jail or prison varies widely, Dr. Carolyn Sufrin, an OB-GYN, associate professor and researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of ...
Most prison nurseries in the United States are only open to mothers who give birth to their children while they are serving their sentence; in most states, women who give birth prior to their incarceration are not eligible, though New York is an exception. [1] Housing an infant in a prison nursery costs approximately $24,000 per year. [2]
Giving birth in prison also presents issues relating to bodily autonomy and control. While women outside of the prison context makes dozens of decisions about their pregnancies and deliveries, such as what type and how much pain relief medication to take, the method and timing of delivery, and who is present in the delivery room, an ...
A California man was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being found guilty of running a “birth tourism” business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. in order ...
“Birth tourism has long been an underground industry in the CNMI, with pregnant Chinese women flocking to Saipan to give birth that automatically provides U.S. citizenship to their new-born child.
Todaro v. Ward argued that women within a New York prison did not have adequate, constitutional access to healthcare. Since Todaro v. Ward was the first major court case that called into question incarcerated women's actual access to health care, it spurred organizations such as the American Medical Association, American Correctional Association, and the American Public Health Association to ...
Still, for the woman desperate not to give birth in prison, it was a relief. "Jail is tough," she said, teary-eyed as she recalled the prison's hot and cramped conditions, a thick grey band ...