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Law Forbidding the Shackling of Pregnant Women Fails to End Practice
Four years after Pennsylvania passed legislation prohibiting the shackling of pregnant prisoners after their second trimester, the law is frequently disobeyed. As a result, many prisoners are enduring “barbaric” shackling while in labor.
PLN previously reported on this inhumane practice and the law’s passage. [See: PLN December 2014, p. ...
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