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Committee advances bill limiting shackling of pregnant inmates in local jails
Summary
HB 2235 would restrict use of restraints on pregnant and postpartum incarcerated women in local jails, expand certain protections to allow infants to stay with mothers until hospital discharge, and requires reporting; the committee reported the bill unanimously, 15–0.
The Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee voted unanimously to report House Bill 2,235, which would limit the use of restraints on pregnant and postpartum people incarcerated in local jails and extend protections similar to those already in place for people in Department of Corrections custody.
Delegate Cousins, the bill's patron, said the measure…
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