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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 ...
The results of study conducted in a Rhode Island prison indicated high levels of reproductive health risks (STDs, unplanned pregnancies, etc.), from which researchers concluded that providing reproductive health services to incarcerated women would be beneficial to the women, the community, and the criminal justice system.
Sufrin heads the Johns Hopkins initiative, Advocacy and Research on Reproductive Wellness of Incarcerated People. In March 2019, the Pregnancy in Prison Statistics (PIPS) study was released. It examined Federal Bureau of Prisons report data for 12-months between 2016 and 2018 and covered 57 percent of the female prison population. It is the ...
Transgender prison inmate received gender-affirming care at KU. Lamb, 82, was moved in January 2023 to the Topeka prison, the state's only women's prison. She was formerly known as Thomas lamb and ...
Gender-Responsive prisons in part were created as a response to the mistreatment experienced by women who suffered from reproductive oppression. Policy-makers and reformists argued on behalf of gender-responsive prisons by asserting that they are better able to consider the specific health needs of women.
In September 2021, Inscoe took prison officials to court, filing a lawsuit seeking an order compelling her transfer to a women’s prison. That ruling was handed down Tuesday by Wake County ...
PIERRE – The state’s new women’s prison may well be full when it opens, South Dakota’s corrections secretary said this week, a reality largely attributable to the prevalence of drug abuse ...
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]