Shackling

Immigrants' Greatest Potential Ally - American Women

Elena Shore | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Womens Rights, Immigration, Immigrant Women, Women Shackling, Shackling, Minority Birth, Latino Birth Rates, Latino Voices News
Elena Shore

And with the Mexican American population booming -- through birth, not immigration - the new target of anti-immigrant and anti-Latino hysteria is now the pregnant mother.

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Mothers Behind Bars in the United States: A Human Rights Issue

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unfair Sentencing, Drug Sentencing, Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, Motherhood, Incarcerated Parents, Prenatal Care, Shackling, Impact News
Malika Saada Saar

Mothers behind bars are invisible to most of us. To the extent they are thought of at all, they are caricatured as the ultimate bad mother who has violated the basic maternal commitment to care for her children.

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Doctors Condemn Shackling Mothers in Labor and Delivery

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prisons, American Medical Association, Correctional Facilities, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Womens-Prisons, Giving Birth, Mothers, Shackling, Impact News
Malika Saada Saar

This week, the American Medical Association called for an end to one of the most draconian practices in the U.S.: the shackling of incarcerated mothers during labor, delivery and post delivery.

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A Decision Whose Time Has Come: Constitution Protects Women in Prison From Unsafe Shackling During Labor And Delivery

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Arkansas-Department-of-Corrections, Nelson v. Norris, Shackling, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

Last week, in a historic ruling, a federal Court of Appeals held that the U.S. Constitution protects pregnant women in prison from the inhumane practice of shackling during labor.

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In Labor, In Chains

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Shackling-Pregnant-Inmates, Arkansas Department of Corrections, In Labor in Chains, Shackling, Video, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

Most mothers behind bars are restrained during labor, delivery and post-delivery as a matter of routine practice in our nation's jails and prisons.

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Giving Birth in Shackles

Meghan Rhoad | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, David Paterson, Prison, Reproductive Rights, Cruel Inhuman Degrading Treatment, Pregnancy, Reproductive Health, Maternal Health, New York, Shackling, Politics News
Meghan Rhoad

There is an international consensus that shackling is an intolerable practice, irreconcilable with human rights principles, along with prohibitions against torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.

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