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AL HB28
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/11/2022
Primary Sponsor
Rolanda Hollis
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AI Summary
- Prohibits requiring pregnant women in custody to squat or cough during strip searches.
- Prohibits vaginal examinations unless prescribed and performed by a licensed health care professional.
- Prohibits use of handcuffs, waist shackles, leg irons, or any restraints on pregnant women in labor, delivery, or women in the immediate postpartum period, except wrist handcuffs in front of body may be used if woman poses immediate threat of harm or substantial flight risk.
- Prohibits placement of pregnant women or women in immediate postpartum period in solitary confinement, administrative segregation, or solitary confinement settings for medical observation.
- Requires expeditious transfer of pregnant women temporarily held in county jails to state penal institutions, with Department of Corrections and sheriffs making all reasonable efforts to facilitate transfer.
Legislative Description
Correction Dept., female inmates, prohibited practices regarding treatment of a pregnant female inmate or a female inmate who is in the immediate postpartum period
Corrections Department
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
1/11/2022
Committee Referrals
Judiciary1/11/2022
Full Bill Text
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