Shackling a woman in labor serves what purpose? If she is on the labor and delivery floor and has been admitted - she IS in labor. How far could she actually run to escape? Any woman who has ever experienced the pain of true labor can tell you that the chances of her running for the door are ZERO. And, even if she did, security is on site and she wouldn't get far. Labor isn't difficult enough all by itself????
I worked in a women's prison in another state in the early 90s. They admitted a woman who was about 5 months pregnant with twins. She was a heroin addict. Rather than put her on methadone to ease the withdrawal from heroin - they made her go cold turkey. Those fools didn't even consider what that would do to the fetuses the woman was carrying. Once a person is imprisioned, their health and healthcare is in the lap of the state - yet they did not rise to the needs of these unborn kids.

"Meshuggena" feminist brazen criminals. So, what's next?

Sounds like spoiled, white women, saving the world.

Dehumanizing people serves no purpose and only interferes with that human being's rehabilitation. Non-violent crime does not warrant violent incarceration. When >95% of those incarcerated will one day be released, the way we treat them does matter. The way those in prison evolve while incarcerated, and the person they are upon leaving, does matter to all of us in society.

Not to excuse in any way that sort of behavior, but it's probably a lot easier to fire a guard for missing too many days than for molesting a prisoner. Whatever it takes to get him out of there.

isn't getting a prison sentence the loss of YOUR RIGHTS? pandering to pregnant prisoners may lead to potential prisoners getting knocked up prior to getting incarcerated so they can get special treatment. Men dont have this option. Men get abused in prison. No one is changing their treatment because of "trauma". maybe women aren't EQUAL after all?

no offense, but how can one expect the general public feel bad for prisoners when they are there by their own accord. it sucks to be abused in prison and all that but the stuff that gets you locked up usually involves a selfish and anti social behavior that only when caught and locked up does the perp realize maybe they were in the wrong.

So, no one is guilty?? All the prisoners are innocent?? Wow.

Here we go. Now we have to have special privileges for feminist criminals too. And how can they use pregnancy as an excuse, when they have the God-given right to abort at will anyway?

Hey,if you did the crime, do the time. Poverty and/or pregnancy is no excuse. Prison is a place people should never want to come back to.

Sounds like no one should ever be in Jail, since everyone can claim some sort of trama.

Do all young women now speak in a sing song, high low manner. It is so distracting. I am waiting for the "Whatever"

We should remind these women that they are in a prison, not an Ivory tower. If no searches, then there would be drugs and weapons smuggled in.