This sociologist just discovered that pregnant women in our American state prisons routinely have CHAINS wrapped around their tummies, ankles and hands...all except six prisons! Most federal prisons do not and a small handful of state do not.
My first reaction? No matter what, these women have been and are treated like ANIMALS, especially the revelation that the correctional staff often do it without proper medical training. It's time to correct this atrocity treatment of women in 2009! Please get involved, call or write. I'm going to check on what our Virginia does.
For an additional record into the history of Virginia: patients (women) "judged" to be mentally incompetent before the 1950s, residing in Virginia mental hospitals, had no rights when it came to choosing or not choosing sterilization! They just were, sterilized. That barbaric policy was quietly abandoned decades and decades ago in our State. Came across those hidden facts while researching at Eastern State Hospital in Staunton.....
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