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More than forty states have laws that prohibit handcuffing pregnant women.
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According to laws passed by some forty states throughout the United States, Police authorities have limitations regarding the use of handcuffs and other elements that restrict mobility in pregnant women. In many of them, these items cannot be used during an arrest. The legislation advanced after a federal law that was approved five years ago and seeks to put the focus on the treatment that inmates receive in general.
Although the laws of each state have their particularities, in most of them The use of handcuffs is prohibited when detaining pregnant women. Besides, The restrictions on this type of elements that complicate mobility also include women who become pregnant in prisons.according to a research group at Johns Hopkins University that replicated CBS News.
This type of legislation, in general, obtained support from Democrats and Republicans during its treatment. One of the most important cases that set a precedent was the First Step Law, enacted in December 2018, which not only allows shortening the sentences of those convicted of non-violent crimes who are in federal custody in the United States, but also improves the treatment of inmates in prisons.
Joe Biden’s provision on pregnant immigrants
Along with the laws that apply in the different states of the North American territory, in 2021, the Joe Biden administration, through a United States Immigration (ICE) directive, established that illegal immigrants cannot be detained. pregnant, except in extraordinary circumstances.
This regulation had been promoted during the governments of Barack Obama and then withdrawn during the administration of Donald Trump, years in which the number of pregnant women detained at the border multiplied.
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