Add to ORKGThe practice of American prisons to shackle and otherwise restrain incarcerated, preg-nant women is problematic for several reasons. Such practices include shackling, chaining, and handcuffing pregnant inmates during their third trimester, transportation to and from medical facilities, labor and delivery, and postpartum recovery. Current discourse on this topic focuses primarily on how these practices invade the woman’s civil liberties, particularly the Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment, and international human rights. Recent case law vindicates policy rationales for such practices—safety of others, safety of the woman herself, and securing flight risks. These discussions overlook and this Note confronts the state’...
In recent years, the scholarly literature, the journalistic press, and even pop culture have begun t...
This note opens the prison doors and delves into the United States female prison system, primarily f...
This note explores the question: is it ever permissible for a physician or a judge to compel a pregn...
The practice of American prisons to shackle and otherwise restrain incarcerated, preg-nant women is ...
The international human rights community has repeatedly expressed concern about the shackling of pre...
This Note will demonstrate the detrimental effects of shackling a pregnant woman and will examine so...
Despite legislation and policy to prevent such things from happening, incarcerated pregnant women ar...
Rationalized for decades on security grounds, perinatal shackling entails the application of handcuf...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
In “Shackling Pregnant Prisoners: Cruel And Unusual Or Justified And Necessary?”, Ring analyzes the ...
In recent years, the scholarly literature, the journalistic press, and even pop culture have begun t...
The male standard of incarceration in the U.S. correctional system creates additional punishments fo...
In recent decades, the treatment of pregnant prisoners has generated much public debate, in particul...
The ways in which society responds to pregnant women whose behavior purportedly harms their fetuses ...
Although ICE\u27s shackling practices vary across the country, in at least some jurisdictions ICE ha...
In recent years, the scholarly literature, the journalistic press, and even pop culture have begun t...
This note opens the prison doors and delves into the United States female prison system, primarily f...
This note explores the question: is it ever permissible for a physician or a judge to compel a pregn...
The practice of American prisons to shackle and otherwise restrain incarcerated, preg-nant women is ...
The international human rights community has repeatedly expressed concern about the shackling of pre...
This Note will demonstrate the detrimental effects of shackling a pregnant woman and will examine so...
Despite legislation and policy to prevent such things from happening, incarcerated pregnant women ar...
Rationalized for decades on security grounds, perinatal shackling entails the application of handcuf...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
In “Shackling Pregnant Prisoners: Cruel And Unusual Or Justified And Necessary?”, Ring analyzes the ...
In recent years, the scholarly literature, the journalistic press, and even pop culture have begun t...
The male standard of incarceration in the U.S. correctional system creates additional punishments fo...
In recent decades, the treatment of pregnant prisoners has generated much public debate, in particul...
The ways in which society responds to pregnant women whose behavior purportedly harms their fetuses ...
Although ICE\u27s shackling practices vary across the country, in at least some jurisdictions ICE ha...
In recent years, the scholarly literature, the journalistic press, and even pop culture have begun t...
This note opens the prison doors and delves into the United States female prison system, primarily f...
This note explores the question: is it ever permissible for a physician or a judge to compel a pregn...