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Former Inmate Sues Over Being Shackled While Giving Birth
It’s one thing to be confined to a jail cell. It’s another thing altogether to be tortured. Last week Your Black World reported on how prisoners in Georgia jails were being abused and mistreated. And last week, a Senate panel heard testimony from an exonerated former prisoner about the way in which solitary confinement drives inmates insane. One could also make the case that being shackled while going through the pain of childbirth is also torture. That’s what one woman was forced to endure, and now she’s suing:
A former prison inmate who says she was shackled at the ankles in an ambulance while in labor prior to the birth of her daughter despite the objections of medical personnel sued the Nevada Department of Corrections on Wednesday. The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, cited what it described as shocking [...]
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3 Responses to Former Inmate Sues Over Being Shackled While Giving Birth
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Marvin
July 13, 2012 at 10:34 pm
U are kidding she is a prisoner not a guest d**n right keep her chained til she’s returned to jail. If u can’t do the time don’t do the crime.
Derrick
June 29, 2012 at 4:51 pm
These yankees don’t give a d**n about Black life. Nothing has changed, since these beast use to cut the Black woman’s womb open, and would stomp her baby to death!
This is modernized slavery! This is a beautiful Black woman and crackers hate to see Black people looking good, regardless of their circumstances (even in jail).
These caucasoids are some heartless beasts.
I HOPE THE SISTER WINS!
Steven Rowles
June 29, 2012 at 4:15 pm
This is crazy! I hope her and her daughter are ok and doing fine.