Later this week, Governor Paterson is expected to sign a bill banning the shackling of pregnant prisoners, noting that “a woman giving birth to a child is hardly the first person that is going to be thinking of trying to escape.” Although other states’ bans on the practice haven’t led to escape attempts, New York prison officials are wary. |AP|
by Will Sherman on August 25, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
Actually, my LANDLADY didn’t even know I was pregnant until I was in the hospital the day after having my son. She is a nurse there and my boyfriend saw her and told her the news and she was shocked that she hadn’t noticed I was pregnant at all. lol, and I’d been living here the whole 9 months.