Pregnant Inmate Sues After Being Forced to Wear Shackles During Labor

[Swede]

This in the USA?

Valerie Nabors gave birth to her fourth child, a healthy baby girl, last October, but within 10 minutes of delivery, she charges, her ankles were shackled to her hospital bed and she was not allowed to walk.

Nabors, a prison inmate at the time, complains her legs were shackled during labor, much to doctors' dismay, and against Nevada state law.

Nabors filed a lawsuit June 20 against the Nevada Department of Corrections claiming cruel and unusual punishment.

Nabors, from Clark County, Nev., was an inmate at the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center (FMWCC) Oct. 19, 2011 when she went into labor, according to the lawsuit. Nabors served a 12-to-30 month sentence from January 2011 to January 2012 for attempting to steal about $300 worth of casino chips.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/pregnant-inmate-files-lawsuit-shackled-labor/story?id=16672739

[Meiko]

1. Rediculuos

to hold a woman in shackles while she delivers a baby. What kind of people do we have running these institutions. What could posbibly be gained by doing thisl There is no way she could have represented a security threat, good grief.....

[rubberducky]

2. It is so sad to think people like this lady are who

we are housing in prison for basically a nothing offense. this could have been taken care of having her help out in a day care or something like that. Total bullshit. Then shackle her during birth like they expect her to get up from the gurney and try to escape.

[HockeyMom]

3. Do these MEN have any idea what Labor feels like?

Yeah, a woman is labor is just going to get up and run away. Clueless.