The federal lawsuit was filed in 2020.
and throughout labor and delivery, settled for $750,000 earlier this month, according to the woman’s attorneys.comes after the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” filed a federal lawsuit in July 2020. She alleged that while pregnant and incarcerated at Middlesex County Jail in 2018 on non-violent drug charges, county officers and supervisors routinely shackled her wrists, ankles, and waist during prenatal visits, as she was transported to the hospital and during labor and childbirth.
Kimberly Burnett, the Middlesex County spokeswoman, said the county and its insurance company would pay the settlement.. The county did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement agreement, finalized on Sept. 7, though Burnett said it has implemented updated guidelines “further limiting the use of restraints on pregnant inmates.
According to the lawsuit the woman, 30, was four months pregnant when she was remanded to the Middlesex County jail following a substance abuse relapse in a drug court program, and subjected to “unnecessary and barbaric practice” of shackling pregnant women. The woman claimed that she constantly asked for the shackles to be removed and for her family to be alerted that she was in the hospital, but jail officers refused. At one point, a nurse asked if the woman’s shackling was necessary, according to the lawsuit, but one of the officers allegedly said he was following “protocol.”
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