In his article in the Huffington Post, “Stop Shackling Inmate Mothers,” Nolan says practice of prison officials chaining women to hospital beds during labor not that uncommon.
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The practice of shackling—the placement of restraints or chains around ankles, waist and hands—usually happens when pregnant women are transported from one area to another, transferred to a new prison or taken to a hospital for medical care. A more egregious form of shackling is that during labor and childbirth, when chains are placed around the waist and legs and arms are strapped to the bed. Women have also been shackled while breast or bottle feeding or visiting in a neonatal nursery.
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