incarcerated women
Will Governor Brown Keep Pregnant and Laboring Women in Chains?
The bill to prevent the shackling of pregnant women in CA's prisons, is the California State Sheriff's Association's top priority for a veto. It means more for them to veto this bill than any other bill on the Governor's desk right now. Those who follow politics in Sacramento know this does not bode well.
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Love and Violence: For Too Many American Women, Life is Not a Bed of Roses
February 14, 2011 - 12:22pm (Print)
On Valentine’s Day, lucky American women will receive roses as a show of affection. But for too many, violence, intimidation, and abuse are the norm.
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Documenting Obstacles to Medical Care for Women in Detention
by Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check
March 19, 2009 - 9:00am (Print)
Immigrant women's health care is severely compromised by the immigrant detention system, two new reports find.
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Supreme Court Will Not Hear Case Limiting Abortion Rights
by Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check
October 6, 2008 - 11:02am (Print)
The Supreme Court opened its new term with some good news for women: it rejected an appeal from the state of Missouri, which had hoped for one more chance to defend its unconstitutional policy banning abortions for women in the prison system.
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