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Missouri lawmakers vote to ban shackling pregnant prisoners
By fox2now.com
Published: 05/18/2018

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo- The Missouri Legislature has passed a bill restricting when prisons can restrain pregnant prisoners.

The bill, approved Thursday by the House 131-13, would only allow the Department of Corrections to use restraints during a prisoner’s third trimester or immediately after birth if the woman is a substantial flight risk, or in other limited situations. Even then, no restraints below the waste would be allowed, and corrections officials would have to remove them if a nurse or doctor demanded it.

The proposal would not apply to jails run by individual counties or cities.

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