{"id":1655,"date":"2014-03-21T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2021-03-29T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T19:47:25","slug":"ma-senate-anti-shackling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/ma-senate-anti-shackling\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Senate unanimously passes anti-shackling legislation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Massachusetts took a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140321234138\/http:\/\/wwlp.com\/2014\/03\/20\/senate-passes-bill-to-curb-shackling-of-pregnant-inmates\/\">huge step<\/a> towards becoming the 19th state to reject the dangerous and inhumane practice of shackling mothers who are pregnant, in labor, or in the postpartum period while they are incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed Bill <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/188\/Senate\/S1171\">S.1171<\/a>, which would ban the routine use of physical restraints on incarcerated pregnant women after the first trimester, including during labor and delivery. The bill also establishes common-sense basic standards for the maternity and childbirth care and information afforded to women who are incarcerated in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The Prison Policy Initiative is a proud member of the Massachusetts Anti-Shackling Coalition (<a href=\"\/scans\/2014_3_19_shacklingpr.pdf\">press release on the bill passage here<\/a>), and we submitted <a href=\"\/scans\/Prison_Policy_Initiative_S.1171_testimony.pdf\">testimony in support<\/a> of S.1171 for the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security&#8217;s <a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/ma-shackling\/\">public hearing in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now the bill moves on to the House. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate unanimously approved a bill to protect Massachusetts moms from being shackled during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11863,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}