Limiting the use of restraints on pregnant women or youth.
Summary
Prohibits restraints of any kind on any pregnant woman or youth in a correctional or detention facility while she is in labor, during childbirth, or in postpartum recovery.
Permits use of restraints only under extraordinary circumstances of any pregnant woman or youth in a correctional or detention facility during transportation to and from visits to medical providers and court proceedings during the third trimester of her pregnancy.
Defines "extraordinary circumstances" and authorization required for use of restraints under those circumstances.
Requires the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC), the Department of Corrections, the Department of Social and Health Services, the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration, and the Criminal Justice Training Commission, by September 1, 2010, to jointly develop an information packet for distribution describing the requirements of this act.
Requires the information packet developed by the WASPC and others to be distributed to all medical staff and nonmedical staff involved in the transportation of women and youth who are pregnant and in the custody of a detention or correctional facility.
Requires notice of the requirements of this act to be provided to all women or youth who are pregnant at the time that a state correctional facility institution or detention facility assumes custody.
From the Engrossed Substitute House Bill Report (ESHB 2747), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗