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Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants By Valeria Fernandez, New America Media Posted on January 28, 2010, Printed on January 30, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/145428/ PHOENIX, Ariz.-- Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, an undocumented immigrant charged with using someone else?s identity to work, gave birth to a boy on Dec. 21 at Maricopa Medical Center. After her C-section, she was shackled for two days to her hospital bed. She was not allowed to nurse her baby. And when guards walked her out of the hospital in shackles, she had no idea what officials had done with her child. Like Mendiola-Martinez, pregnant inmates in Maricopa County Jail are routinely denied bond because they are undocumented immigrants. That means they can?t get out of jail for their childbirth, even if they are awaiting trial for a minor offense...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 30, 2010 (boomark / email).