Stop Shackling Pregnant Prisoners: New Push to Ban Controversial Practice

Alex Berg reports on states’ new push to ban restraining pregnant inmates during labor.

Published Sep. 4 2011 11:36PM EDT

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From the moment her daughter was born, Kellie Phelan, 37, felt like an embarrassment. It wasn’t that she’d hid her pregnancy from her family, or even that she spent part of it behind bars at Rikers Island.

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Stop Shackling Pregnant Prisoners: New Push to Ban Controversial Practice

Alex Berg reports on states’ new push to ban restraining pregnant inmates during labor.

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Alex Berg