{"id":1409,"date":"2014-01-03T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T19:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:37:59","slug":"valley-advocate-shackling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/03\/valley-advocate-shackling\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Advocate covers Massachusetts bill to ban shackling of pregnant women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke with the <i>Valley Advocate<\/i> for a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/scans\/ValleyAdvocate_Shackling_Dec2013.pdf\">article<\/a> on a <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/188\/Senate\/S1171\">bill<\/a> to ban the routine use of physical restraints on incarcerated pregnant women after the first trimester, including during labor and delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was up for a hearing earlier this month, and we submitted <a href=\"\/scans\/Prison_Policy_Initiative_S.1171_testimony.pdf\">written testimony<\/a> urging the legislature add Massachusetts to the growing list of states that have rejected this inhumane and dangerous practice.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be reporting back with updates, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah spoke with the Valley Advocate about PPI&#8217;s testimony in support of S 1171.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10694,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}