UNSHACKLED!
By Executive Vice President Dee Johnson
Philadelphia NOW is proud to have been involved in the development of the Healthy Birth of Incarcerated Women's Act (SB 1074). The bill was introduced by Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery County), signed into law (Act 45) by Gov. Ed Rendell on July 2, and took effect on Monday, August 30, 2010.
It bans the practice of shackling pregnant women incarcerated in Pennsylvania's state prisons and county jails during transport to hospital, and while in labor, delivery, and recovery.
We celebrated this victory with a host of other groups involved in this effort at a press conference and reception. Well, that's one fight won for women in Pennsylvania, and so many others to go...
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