Police refused to remove the shackles claiming NYPD policy. But the practice has been illegal since 2009.
A Bronx woman, Jane Doe, had been arrested “in Bronx County Family Court for violating an order of protection that was part of a child custody dispute with her former partner” CNN reports. However, at 40 weeks pregnant, she went into labor just hours later, where she was taken from a cell to a hospital. But that didn’t stop mistreatment from the NYPD.
Futhermore, the complaint from Doe’s attorneys alleges that Doe had not been resisting or acting out in an unruly manner. While police eventually removed the restraints , they put them back on right after Doe had given birth, preventing her from being fully able to bond with her newborn child. ADVERTISEMENT Doe is now entitled to $610,000 from the city of New York, thanks to a settlement, but the practice of shackling pregnant women is unfortunately all too common. The passage of the First Step Act in Congress last December has now banned the practice of shackling pregnant people in federal prisons, however, the federal prison population represents only a small fraction of incarcerated people. Most are in the state and local prison system.
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