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midnight

(26,624 posts) Sat Jun 30, 2012, 08:17 AM Jun 2012

Former Pregnant Inmate Sues After Being Forced to Wear Shackles During Labor

"When you shackle a woman at her ankles, making it difficult for medical personnel to check her, you're sending a message that our primary obligation in society is not taking care of women, but to punish them needlessly and I think it's cruel and sadistic," Pratt said.

"This is not a time when a woman is thinking about escape. This is not a time when a woman is thinking about injuring anyone. This is a time when a woman is trying to get through the process of child birth with dignity and with respect for her health and the health of her child."

After giving birth the shackles were again placed on Nabors, who was serving a 12 to 30 month sentence for stealing about $250 in casino chips.

"I understand that I did break the law, I understand that," she admitted. "But that doesn't mean I should get treated unfairly. Women have babies everyday and there's certain procedures for that."

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/former-pregnant-inmate-sues-after-being-forc#comments

I realize that this has been going on in America for lots of years, but it's torture and it's been done in America to Women for 250.00 theft and traffic stops...

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Former Pregnant Inmate Sues After Being Forced to Wear Shackles During Labor (Original Post) midnight Jun 2012 OP

i hope she prevails. barbtries Jun 2012 #1

Oh,yes, she might run HelenWheels Jun 2012 #2

WOW--how gutsy! Not very smart of the teen or her mom, but gutsy! nt MADem Jun 2012 #3

Wow treestar Jun 2012 #4

having worked corrections in NC for 10 years... littlewolf Jun 2012 #5

Against Medical Advice too....... Smilo Jun 2012 #6

barbtries

(28,811 posts)

1. i hope she prevails.

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 09:10 AM

Jun 2012

that is cruel and unusual. she wasn't even convicted of a violent crime. jeez

HelenWheels

(2,284 posts)

2. Oh,yes, she might run

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 09:28 AM

Jun 2012

I worked in the WI correctional system with the juveniles. We had a teenager in labor and her mom was sitting with her in the hospital. She was not restrained. The officer was sitting in the hall by her room. She went to check on her and girl and mom were gone. They caught them as they were running across the parking lot. They climbed out the window unto a porch roof and jumped down 9 feet to the parking lot.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

3. WOW--how gutsy! Not very smart of the teen or her mom, but gutsy! nt

Reply to HelenWheels (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 09:55 AM

Jun 2012

treestar

(82,383 posts)

4. Wow

Reply to HelenWheels (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 10:32 AM

Jun 2012

I was exactly thinking that a woman in labor wasn't going to try to escape!

What was this teen going to do, have the baby out of the hospital, naturally?

littlewolf

(3,813 posts)

5. having worked corrections in NC for 10 years...

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 10:41 AM

Jun 2012

now we didn't have females ... or Juvies .... just adult males ...
if medical personnel asked us to take the shackles off we did ...
but that was usually only if the inmate had something wrong
with his feet or legs ....

2 officers (armed) one outside ..
one inside with the inmate ...
no family unless approved by the unit manager ..

but I worked with close custody (40 year plus sentence)

Smilo

(1,944 posts)

6. Against Medical Advice too.......

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 11:11 AM

Jun 2012

"Nabors said that prison guards ignored the advice of an emergency medical technician who cautioned them not to bind her ankles with the shackles.
"She [an ambulance EMT] explained to him, you can't do this because I still have to check her and he just said 'oh well' and proceeded to put the leg shackles on and went back into the facility," the former inmate recalled."

What is it with these people who think they know better than trained medical personnel. I sincerely hope there is an investigation and the guards that did this lose their jobs.

Please know that not all guards are like this - I know several and they are smart, courteous, respectful of the inmates and would never have dreamed of doing this to Nabors.

Also when I saw she received the stiff sentence for stealing $250 casino chips - knew it was Nevada - the casinos run this state and what they want they get.

I do hope Nabors prevails and sends a message that women are not just things that can be treated inhumanely at the whim of someone else.

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