Back in May, we alerted you to
an important article written by Tonya Williams of
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now on the practice of shackling jailed pregnant women throughout labor and delivery.
Now, after recent decisions in Washington state and Arkansas found that the practice violates the civil rights of incarcerated women -- and in light of a class action suit pending in Illinois involving as many as 150 female prisoners -- NPR has picked up story, running a piece late last week that quotes an expert in the field referring to the practice as "tantamount to torture."
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