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Broad Support for North Carolina Bill to Bar Shackling Pregnant Prisoners
by Daniel Matheson
On April 20, 2021 a bipartisan bill entitled the “Dignity for Women Who Are Incarcerated Act” was filed in the North Carolina state legislature. The bill would end the degrading act of shackling imprisoned women during their pregnancy that, until recent decades, was a common …
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