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'Born Behind Bars'

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The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal today published a nice piece by Logan Carver ("Born Behind Bars") exploring what happens to pregnant women in the Lubbock jail and in Texas state prisons. About 250 women per year give birth in a Texas prison hospital, the A-J reports, and dozens more pregnant women (nobody knows how many) are housed in Texas county jails at any given time. Well worth a read.Relatedly, legislation discussed here regarding pregnant jail inmates - one bill to ban shackling during labor and delivery and another to require an accurate count of pregnant inmates - has passed the Texas House.HB 3653: Bans the shackling of incarcerated women in labor and delivery (with some necessary exceptions for safety).HB 3654: requires county jails to plan their medical care for pregnant women and also requires them to count how many pregnant women they have incarcerated...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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