Pregnant incarcerated women have been identified as a particularly high-risk group and among the most vulnerable women in the United States. The use of shackling or restraints poses health risks to pregnant women and their fetuses. Currently, only 22 states have legislation prohibiting or limiting the shackling of pregnant women. Here we provide an overview of the potential negative health outcomes that can result from shackling pregnant women, especially during labor and birth, and suggest strategies for nurses who wish to promote optimal health care for incarcerated women and to advocate for anti-shackling legislation in their states
On any given day, approximately 6%-10% of women who are incarcerated in prisons and jails in the Uni...
Women of childbearing age are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the Unit...
Women of childbearing age are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the Unit...
The international human rights community has repeatedly expressed concern about the shackling of pre...
Despite legislation and policy to prevent such things from happening, incarcerated pregnant women ar...
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...
Background. Although standards for pregnancy-related health care in correctional facilities have bee...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
Recent evolving trends in the United States legal system regarding how policies and laws are applied...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
In recent decades, the treatment of pregnant prisoners has generated much public debate, in particul...
The practice of American prisons to shackle and otherwise restrain incarcerated, preg-nant women is ...
Rationalized for decades on security grounds, perinatal shackling entails the application of handcuf...
The 1999 publication of a report by Amnesty International on the use of shackles and restraints with...
On any given day, approximately 6%-10% of women who are incarcerated in prisons and jails in the Uni...
Women of childbearing age are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the Unit...
Women of childbearing age are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the Unit...
The international human rights community has repeatedly expressed concern about the shackling of pre...
Despite legislation and policy to prevent such things from happening, incarcerated pregnant women ar...
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...
Background. Although standards for pregnancy-related health care in correctional facilities have bee...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
Recent evolving trends in the United States legal system regarding how policies and laws are applied...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
In recent decades, the treatment of pregnant prisoners has generated much public debate, in particul...
The practice of American prisons to shackle and otherwise restrain incarcerated, preg-nant women is ...
Rationalized for decades on security grounds, perinatal shackling entails the application of handcuf...
The 1999 publication of a report by Amnesty International on the use of shackles and restraints with...
On any given day, approximately 6%-10% of women who are incarcerated in prisons and jails in the Uni...
Women of childbearing age are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the Unit...
Women of childbearing age are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the Unit...