Arizona Bill Would Bar Shackling of Mothers Giving Birth

New America Media Monday 13th February, 2012

PHOENIX, Ariz.--Lisa Marie Cookingham, an OBGYN doctor at several hospitals in Maricopa County, often sees cases of incarcerated patients being shackled to their beds during labor-a practice, she said, puts women and their unborn babies at risk."I experience first-hand the harmful practice of shackling prisoners," she testified at a Arizona’s...

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