Far from boosting the economy, Mr Magufuli is shackling it.
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It's important to understand that families use shackling as a last resort.
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Now his favorite game is patting down and shackling "migrants" with plastic cuffs.
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Ban shackling of women during pregnancy as well as placing them in solitary confinement.
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"This is the current right-wing ideological majority shackling the future," Mr. Seidemann said.
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Prohibiting the barbaric but common practice of shackling pregnant women to their beds during childbirth. ?
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One issue we saw illustrated quite clearly onscreen was the practice of shackling during labor.
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Earlier this month, Democrats introduced legislation to prevent ICE from detaining and shackling expecting mothers.
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Her costume (by designer Richard Ruiz) alternates between cryptic and vulnerable, simultaneously shackling and revealing.
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The First Step Act recently banned shackling of pregnant women in federal custody, for example.
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The rules shackling banks have led them to cut back on serving less profitable smaller customers.
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The bill now bans the shackling of women who are pregnant in labor, and post-partum.
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Having said that, shackling does tend to occur in areas where there's no access to services.
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"It was investing in the right people, giving them responsibility and not shackling them," Dalton said.
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Shackling pregnant women in police custody or prison was banned in New York State starting in 2009.
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Federal prisons stopped shackling women in labor in 2008 but continue to let guards shackle pregnant inmates.
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As a pregnant woman, I am encouraged by the proposal to end the shackling of pregnant inmates.
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It also changes some rules on prisoner treatment, including banning the practice of shackling women during childbirth.
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He voted against a measure that would have stopped the shackling of pregnant prisoners while in labor.
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In fact, to conclude that climate change should mean shackling capitalism would be wrong-headed and damaging.
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A public understanding of science is not well served by shackling science to a national-security state.
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Although some have celebrated the bill because it prohibits the shackling of women during childbirth, the practice of shackling pregnant women in all but the most extreme circumstances has been banned in federal prisons for 10 years, so the provision will likely have little to no practical effect.
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But Vizzard, the former ATF special agent, says that by shackling the agency, Congress is hindering police investigations.
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The bill is called the Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act and aims to do just that.
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" The shackling system that pinned their arms to their chests for the ride was called a "black box.
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Zubaydah said he was subjected to sleep-deprivation techniques that involved painful shackling and being doused with water.
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I was much more interested in the shackling and radicalizing potential of tradition and culture and the past.
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When doctors appealed to a police supervisor, they were told that shackling was NYPD policy, according to the complaint.
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The kingdom is at the centre of President Donald Trump's Middle East strategy of shackling its perpetual enemy Iran.
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The practice of shackling pregnant women in immigration detention is a topic Murray has attempted to legislate for years.
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In 213, Allred successfully fought against Los Angeles County's practice of shackling pregnant female prisoners during labor and childbirth.
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For this reason, families sometimes detain affected family members, shackling them in sheds and backyards for years on end.
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He now hides when visitors arrive, and his favorite game is patting down and shackling "migrants" with plastic cuffs.
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"The stunned animal shall remain in a state of surgical anesthesia through shackling, sticking and bleeding," the law states.
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Neil Hamilton, UKIP's leader in Wales, told Sky that Farage had been "shackling himself to a corpse" in supporting Bolton.
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The bill also bans shackling women inmates during childbirth and calls for placing inmates in prisons closer to their families.
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Shackling is prohibited by ICE and CBP's most recent standards-of-care policies as well as by a congressional directive.
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All of these standards and the prohibition on shackling pregnant women are already included in ICE's most recent detention standards.
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But that's backward, given that skilled individuals create, not take away, jobs, and no economy succeeds by shackling qualified people.
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Since serving her sentence, Ms. Winn, formerly a nurse, has become an advocate for banning the shackling of pregnant women.
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Testimonials of pregnant inmates stated they were subject to delayed abortions, a lack of prenatal care and shackling during labor.
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It would also require prisoners to be housed within 500 miles from their relatives and prohibit prisons from shackling pregnant women.
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Right now we're seeing the Tories go into overdrive, privatizing schools, shackling the unions, and letting refugees die in the sea.
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More broadly, compensation experts say the measures also address the fundamental unfairness of shackling a new employee to a prior salary.
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A state antishackling law passed in 2009 was expanded last year to prohibit the shackling of pregnant inmates under most circumstances.
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If you spend all your money, you're just shackling yourself to having to work harder and longer to pay yourself back.
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The CIA's investigations attempt to shift some of the blame for Rahman's death onto the BOP and the practice of shackling.
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The telecom giants, and their Republican allies in Congress, accuse the FCC of overstepping its authority and shackling their business models.
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Even Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, a nominal Trump ally, is using his position to slowly craft similar shackling legislation.
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"Shackling is a dehumanizing, cruel and pointless practice that has no place in New York City in 2018," the suit said.
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It would also prohibit the shackling of pregnant inmates and the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in almost all cases.
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"Excessive use of force, isolation and shackling of children is barbaric and inhumane," said Human Rights Watch Australia Director Elaine Pearson.
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Shackling pregnant women is prohibited by ICE's and CBP's most recent standards-of-care policies, as well as by a congressional directive.
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Now, Democrats are introducing a bill called the Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act, and it aims to do just that.
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Obviously, and that's why we've spent a lot of time on multimedia; on photos, on videos to show the reality of shackling.
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The legislation would also prohibit the shackling of pregnant inmates and the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in almost all cases.
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Rebuff the shackling of American goodness as it is misconceived and believe in America's unlimited potential, wherever our values can be spread.
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Prosecutors said Rice was negligent in shackling Gray's legs and not securing him in a seat belt, as required by department protocol.
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According to the complaint, filed Thursday, doctors repeatedly told the officers that shackling women who are in labour is illegal under state law.
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A woman named Melissa Hall has also filed a class action suit against the jail due to its policy of shackling pregnant women.
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That bill, passed in December, among other things banned the shackling of pregnant prisoners and made thousands of prisoners eligible for early release.
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Yasay played a crucial role driving Duterte's policy of diversifying foreign relations beyond ally the United States, describing it as a "shackling dependency".
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Texas already prohibits the shackling of pregnant inmates during labor and immediately after giving birth, though guards can still restrain inmates at other times.
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The shackling of pregnant women is not the prison system's primary maternity dilemma: It's the severe shortage of both reproductive and postnatal health care.
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"ICE has recently reported it has detained more than 500 pregnant women since December, and they are using shackling of pregnant women," said Rep.
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It will formally ban federal prison officials from shackling pregnant women before, during, and shortly after they give birth, which can pose health risks.
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But in the process, we are also punishing the most vulnerable citizens and shackling the ability of humanitarian agencies to deliver aid to them.
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The writer is a co-author of "Breaking Promises: Violations of the Massachusetts Pregnancy Standards and Anti-Shackling Law" and a blogger for MomsRising.
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If courts and legislatures continue shackling workers and companies to antiquated conceptions of labor, American businesses will be less competitive and workers will have fewer opportunities.
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Only 22 states and the District of Columbia have restricted shackling of pregnant inmates and in a lot of cases, we see these restrictions often ignored.
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In separate polling, 90 percent support providing basic hygiene products to incarcerated women free of charge, and 86 percent support banning the shackling of pregnant women.
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The American Medical Association, she continued, recommends against shackling pregnant women in their second or third trimester because it can increase chances of harming the fetus.
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While there, the BOP team instructed guards on the proper use of a restraining technique against detainees called "short chaining," also referred to as short shackling.
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Still, even while shackling pregnant or postpartum women has been prohibited in more than two dozen states, there are still high-profile instances of it happening.
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It creates a suite of programs and incentives intended to reduce recidivism and prohibits the shackling of female inmates while pregnant, among other prison-focused measures.
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He used to love playing with Minions, the impish characters from "Despicable Me." Now his favorite game is patting down and shackling "migrants" with plastic cuffs.
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She equips these figures with weaponry as a means of self-defense and rebellion against the political parameters shackling the mammy to servitude under white supremacy.
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For her, women's lives and bodies were meant to fulfill ambitions, and they couldn't be expected to wear corsets and body-shackling garments to do that in.
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The following year, however, Murray successfully attached a congressional directive to that year's appropriations bill requiring ICE to prohibit the shackling of pregnant detainees in its updated guidelines.
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In his memoir, Slahi wrote that he faced beatings, extreme isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual molestation, frigid rooms, shackling in stress positions and threats against him and his mother.
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According to recent polling, 82 percent support the First Step Act including changes to mandatory sentencing, efforts to aid reentry, and ending the shackling of pregnant female inmates.
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Instead, high-profile efforts to address prison conditions have often centered on specific issues like ending the use of solitary confinement or prohibiting the shackling of pregnant women.
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And it makes other changes aimed at improving conditions in prisons, including banning the shackling of women during childbirth and requiring that inmates are placed closer to their families.
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Co-sponsored by Senators Dick Durbin and Kamala Harris, the bill would bar prisons from shackling pregnant women or placing them in solitary confinement, according to the Huffington Post.
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"Shackling them with so much debt leaves so many clouds out there," Mr. Goodgame said, alluding to the Morehouse College seal, which shows a rising sun above the clouds.
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The Lancet report found that in many countries, people with common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia routinely suffer gross human rights violations – including shackling, torture and imprisonment.
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Trump also blamed the "political problem" in the United States -- not Russia's meddling or aggressive actions around the world -- for shackling him in his efforts to improve relations with Russia.
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But even with the dissolution of Soviet political control, dependence on Russian energy has proved to be an even more arresting force, shackling Polish economic growth and quality of life.
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But when police transported her to the hospital, they refused to remove the restraints, despite a doctor asking them to do so, noting that shackling is illegal in New York.
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New York is one of 26 states that prohibit shackling women in labor, Dr. Sufrin said, and some go as far as banning restraints for all pregnant women in custody.
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Late last decade, smartphones liberated computers from our desks, which was thrilling until we realized they were also shackling us into a distracted, addictive existence ruled entirely by multitouch glass.
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And it would make other changes aimed at improving conditions in prisons, including banning the shackling of women during childbirth and requiring that inmates are placed closer to their families.
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The bill also makes other changes aimed at improving conditions in prisons, including banning the shackling of women during childbirth and requiring that inmates are placed closer to their families.
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"Our country should not be shackling pregnant women and should not be denying them health care when they are pregnant," Murray told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, before the bill was introduced.
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At the end of the day, the restrictions advanced by countries with little to lose and everything to gain from shackling the U.S. economy will ultimately prove destructive to all involved.
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The practice of shackling women was uncommon until the Trump administration imposed its zero-tolerance border crossing policy, Clark said, in part because women were not regularly detained prior to that.
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It felt unbearably painful to sit through 1.5 hours of the evil that is Cruella de Vil vying for a new fur coat or circus performers shackling an elephant to a tent.
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Burmese fisherman enslaved on Thai fishing boats reported long hours with no pay, brutal whippings with toxic sting ray tails, and shackling to boats for those men thought to be flight risks.
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It also outlines protocols for prolonged shackling in painful positions that would permit development of skin lesions and edema (swelling because of leakage of fluid from blood vessels) up to the knees.
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The interrogators subjected some detainees at Guantánamo to loud music, strobe lights, cold temperatures, isolation, painful shackling, threats against family members and prolonged sleep deprivation, according to the Justice Department's inspector general.
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Most states still allow the monstrous practice of shackling pregnant women who are in labor, and even the states that have passed laws against it still don't always enforce those laws very well.
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The call, which was previously played in court, blew open the case against David and Louise Turpin, who had been beating, shackling and starving their 173 children inside their Perris home for years.
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Mr. Davies's main argument reflects a switch of emphasis made by euroskeptics in the last decade, when they began to argue that membership in the bloc was shackling Britain to an economic corpse.
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The bill would send 4,000 prisoners home, provide sanitary products to incarcerated women, outlaw shackling during childbirth and make it easier for inmates to earn time in home arrest or half-way houses.
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Brussels faced another of those values-versus-interests dilemmas last week when the European Commission had to decide whether to begin disciplinary action over Polish laws shackling the constitutional court and the state media.
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Instead, it has deepened the historical tensions shackling the nation, leaving some Guyanese afraid that the newfound wealth will subvert the country's fragile democracy and wipe out other industries, as happened in neighboring Venezuela.
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Though in 2008 the Bureau of Prisons greatly restricted shackling during labor and delivery, and in 2014 the use of restraints generally on pregnant inmates, those policies have not yet been enshrined in law.
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The bill bans the shackling of pregnant women, requires the Bureau of Prisons to create better visitation policies for parents, provide parenting classes, and offer health products like tampons and pads free of charge.
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Brussels faced another of those values-versus-interests dilemmas last week when the executive European Commission had to decide whether to launch disciplinary action over Polish laws shackling the constitutional court and the state media.
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It would also mandate federal prisoners be incarcerated no more than 500 miles from their homes, ban the shackling of pregnant women and enshrine into law the bureau's provision of feminine hygiene products as needed.
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The legislation would also improve conditions for incarcerated women, prohibiting the shackling of female inmates while pregnant, and would require the Bureau of Prisons to locate prisoners in facilities close to their homes, if possible.
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Feature In an expansion of the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is targeting low-level smugglers in international waters — shackling them on ships for weeks or even months before arraignment in American courts.
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He won his second straight start by limiting Philadelphia to one run on three hits over seven innings after shackling St. Louis on a run and six hits over seven frames in his previous outings.
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The Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act calls for expanded visitation for mothers who are primary caretakers, better treatment of pregnant women (no shackling or solitary confinement), and more access to free menstrual products, among other things.
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Even the solitary Palestinian speaker on the conference agenda, Ashraf Jabari, a Hebron businessman, defended the Palestinian Authority and — perhaps alone among the speakers — spoke of the occupation and the Gaza blockade as shackling Palestinian businesses.
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The bill would federally prohibit shackling, along with providing for free electronic contact between incarcerated women and family members, free menstrual products, and greater attention to placing a child near the facility where a woman is incarcerated.
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The ACLU cites two important, gender-specific lines of the FSA, which benefit incarcerated people who can bear children: permanently banning the shackling of pregnant people during childbirth and loosening restrictions on access to menstrual hygiene products.
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The House passed another key bill, enhancing the power of the state superintendent of education, who is a newly elected Republican, and mandating Senate approval of Mr. Cooper's cabinet appointments, a significant shackling of the governor's authority.
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Shackling in such a manner is standard practice for prisoners in the US while they are being transferred between facilities, but for pregnant women in their second trimester it could cause issues with the pregnancy, medical professionals say.
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And though the practice of shackling pregnant and laboring women was banned in all federal facilities by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2008, regional and state prisons can still decide whether or not to implement these guidelines.
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The Protecting the Health and Wellness of Women in Custody Act mandates the collection of data on incarcerated pregnant women in the United States and would end the cruel practice of shackling pregnant women incarcerated in federal facilities.
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The British company asked its shareholders to back its $27 billion merger with its German counterpart to create a European exchange giant on Monday, dismissing concerns it was "shackling itself to a corpse" after Britain's EU referendum result.
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He became famous after writing a best-selling memoir that detailed allegations of beatings, extreme isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual molestation, frigid rooms, shackling in stress positions and threats against him and his mother while he was at Guantanamo.
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In January, 22016, she attended an event held by Spark that was an introduction to reproductive-justice organizing, and later volunteered on a Spark initiative to stop the practice in Georgia prisons of shackling pregnant women during childbirth.
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The agency shuttled captives suspected of major terrorist acts between secret overseas prisons called black sites and tortured them with tactics like waterboarding, prolonged sleep deprivation, forced nudity, confinement in cramped boxes and shackling into painful stress positions.
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Washington, ranked No. 27 in the FBS in points allowed, limited the Sun Devils (219-214, 210-257) to 226 yards of total offense while shackling Wilkins, who had passed for 103 yards in the first three games.
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If passed, the law will require several reform measures in federal prisons, including an overhaul of visitation policies, a ban on shackling pregnant inmates or keeping them in solitary confinement, and a ban on charging inmates for phone calls.
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There are some good aspects of this bill, including the prohibition of the abhorrent practice of shackling pregnant women in prison and the retroactive application of an increase in good-time credit from 47 to 54 days per year.
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Under this logic, then, the audience wouldn't believe what happened in these secret, offshore black sites were actually all that bad unless they were confronted with graphic scenes of violence against Muslim men, including walling, waterboarding, and short shackling.
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In the process, the series largely squanders Haddish by shackling her with a classic girlfriend role, even if her casting coming off the theatrical hit "Girls Trip" -- coupled with Peele serving as co-creator -- certainly counts as fortuitous timing.
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In the past, Democrats in Congress have shown particular interest in the treatment of pregnant women in immigration detention; there's a very strict ban in the bill on the shackling of any pregnant woman in the custody of immigration agents.
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He spent much of the '90s locked in a battle with his record label, an entity he believed was shackling his creative spirit, and he released a string of substandard albums as a means of freeing himself from his contract.
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In February of this year, the couple pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts — including torture and false imprisonment — for routinely starving, shackling and abusing their 13 children, who at the time of the arrest ranged in ages from 2 to 29.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The California couple accused of beating, shackling and abusing their 13 children may have used starvation as a weapon to control them, experts say, and the malnourishment would likely cause lifelong physical and mental issues for the siblings.
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The problems range from shackling patients to beds and not permitting them to use restrooms to pressuring doctors to discharge patients quickly and certify that they can be held in crowded detention facilities that immigration officials themselves say are unsafe.
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It's led to heightened attention to issues like "shackling," which in the case of pregnant incarcerated women usually involves restraining a woman's arms, legs, or waist as she is transported, and , in some cases, also as she is delivering her baby.
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It would, for example, require that inmates be housed within 500 miles of their families, prohibit the brutal but disturbingly common practice of shackling pregnant women and expand rehabilitative programs in which prisoners can participate to earn good-time credits.
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Cole Hamels, the veteran left-hander with a sturdy playoff résumé, continued to deliver the type of performance a World Series contender would covet, shackling the Yankees for seven innings in the Texas Rangers' 6-4 victory at Globe Life Park.
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Dannel Malloy announced a new bill that would make improvements to the lives of women in his state's prisons, including banning the shackling of women during labor, providing feminine hygiene products at no cost and establishing child-friendly visitation policies.
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"Daily correctional practices such as shackling, or searches, or being held in solitary confinement, [or] being observed by male officers during really private moments, can really trigger a lot of the trauma they bring with them to the justice system," Swavola said.
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The practice of restraining, or shackling, pregnant or laboring women—particularly during childbirth and in the postpartum period—has been widely criticized for over a decade, especially after reports of women giving birth in solitary confinement or while handcuffed to prison beds.
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For eight days, defense lawyers used C.I.A. cables from the black sites to question Dr. Mitchell about the interrogation program he designed to pressure Qaeda suspects to answer C.I.A. questions by using waterboarding, sleep deprivation and methods known as short-shackling and walling.
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The CCTV video showed guards mocking inmates, carrying a boy by the neck and throwing him onto a mattress in a cell, and covering a teenager's head with a hood and shackling him to a chair with neck, arm, leg and foot restraints.
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In her 2015 book, "Dark Matters," she traces the ways in which "surveillance is nothing new to black folks," from the branding of enslaved people and the shackling of convict laborers to Jim Crow segregation and the home visits of welfare agencies.
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Australia's Matthew Jurman is used to VAR from his club football in the K-League and will be highly aware of the all-seeing eye of the camera if he is handed the task of shackling France's attack in Kazan on Saturday.
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In August 2002, Zubaydah, already suffering from a severe leg wound, became the first victim of the George W. Bush administration&aposs "enhanced interrogation," which included shackling him in stress positions and confined spaces, prolonged sleep deprivation, and 83 episodes of waterboarding.
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In February, Louise, 50, and David, 57, pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts — including torture and false imprisonment — for routinely starving, shackling and abusing their 13 children, who at the time of the parents January 2018 arrest ranged in ages from 2 to 29.
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Watch this from VICE: Yet a 2017 study in Maternal and Child Health Journal indicates that, despite the many federal and medical guidelines indicating the practice's barbarism and inefficacy, the practice of shackling continues in many regional jails, particularly in the immediate postpartum recovery period.
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" The medical service instructed physicians to manage waterboarding's dangers by combining the practice with sleep deprivation and shackling of detainees in stressful positions; this, the service advised, could "prolong the period of moderate use of the waterboard by reducing the intensity of its early use.
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The White House has said Trump would support a measure that addresses poor prison conditions by allowing for more visitation time and incentives for good behavior, along with making improvements for women prisoners like more accessible health products and ending the practice of shackling women during childbirth.
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In July, Senators Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Richard Durbin introduced the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act, a bill that would ban shackling and solitary confinement for pregnant women and prohibit prisons from charging for essential health care items, such as tampons and pads.
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" * * * Two weeks ago, VICE News exclusively reported on Rahman's last hours, the lack of accountability at the CIA after his death, and the fact that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) visited the black site and trained guards on a shackling technique, a "safer alternative to hog-tying prisoners.
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"The fact is that until the president and Congress are willing to address the real drivers of our debt, Medicare and Social Security, we will be complicit in shackling future generations with the financial burden of our own lack of discipline," said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee.
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Similar hunger strikes occurred at male facilities across the US. When it comes to a range of issues that affect incarcerated women, including sexual abuse, access to reproductive health care, and the shackling of pregnant women, there is scant data on whether conditions are actually worse in privately run facilities.
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In Delaware, this year alone, the state legislature passed laws to expand the use of civil citations instead of criminal charges, to end shackling of youth except where it's necessary for safety, to provide free legal representation to all children charged with a crime, and to make it easier for juveniles to expunge their records.
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Since we're Mashable, we had to take things to Facebook Live for a live unboxing experience: Mashable Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff and I did our best to get the toys open as quickly as possible, but the Disney Store Elite Series proved somewhat challenging with all the twisty ties shackling the figures' limbs down.
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Officials who carried it out were protected from prosecution under an anti-torture statute because the Office of Legal Counsel issued secret memos that invoked sweeping theories of executive power to declare that it would be lawful to subject detainees to waterboarding, prolonged sleep deprivation, shackling into painful stress positions and confinement in cramped boxes.
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The bill also aims to lower recidivism by offering more rehabilitation and job-training opportunities, and it includes provisions intended to treat prisoners humanely — banning the shackling of pregnant inmates, halting the use of solitary confinement for most juvenile inmates, and mandating that prisoners be placed in facilities within 500 miles from their families.
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IRF ing typically involved a team of six or more men dressed in riot gear: the first man would pepper-spray the detainee, then charge into the cell and, using a heavy shield and his body weight, tackle the detainee; the rest would jump on top, shackling or binding the detainee until he was no longer moving.
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Mr. Yang's lawyers said they had confirmed that Chinese officials were conducting daily interrogations of him in isolation, shackling his ankles and wrists, refusing to allow access to any messages of support from relatives or friends and giving him at least nine pills a day for supposed health problems like high blood pressure and kidney complications.
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Moreover, while there is evidence that prosecution, shackling, and the threat of prison time have in the past deterred economic migrants from attempting to enter the United States illegally, these forms of deterrence are likely to be less successful with humanitarian migrants, especially families and children, who are often fleeing life-or-death circumstances in their home countries.
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The lawsuit cites the view held by top medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, as well as the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that shackling women during labour, delivery and postpartum recovery increases the potential for harm to the woman and baby, and can interfere with medical staff's ability to assist in childbirth or sudden emergencies.
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This 'deal' stops us seizing the benefits of Brexit, whilst shackling us to the worst parts of the EU." Conservative lawmaker Marcus Fysh on Twitter: "The PM's (Prime Minister's) proposed Withdrawal Agreement is terminally toxic to our democracy, and her proposals for the future relationship both make the Withdrawal Agreement even more toxic, and are as fanciful as they were at Chequers.
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The bill would institute a number of reforms that strengthen family ties and support rehabilitation, including requiring the Federal Bureau of Prisons to consider the location of children when placing mothers behind bars, expanding visitation policies for primary caretakers, banning shackling and solitary confinement for pregnant women, and prohibiting prisons from charging for essential health care items, such as tampons and pads.
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This 'deal' stops us seizing the benefits of Brexit, whilst shackling us to the worst parts of the EU." Conservative lawmaker Marcus Fysh on Twitter: "The PM's (Prime Minister's) proposed Withdrawal Agreement is terminally toxic to our democracy, and her proposals for the future relationship both make the Withdrawal Agreement even more toxic, and are as fanciful as they were at Chequers.
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And after two years of enacting bipartisan-supported policies that included a ban the box executive order, a felony expungement bill, and a broad reentry package, Kentucky is poised to become the first state in the nation to pass a "Dignity" bill, which bans the shackling of pregnant women, improves conditions for all incarcerated women, and expands treatment for women suffering from addiction.
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The details: The bill would send 4,000 prisoners home, allow men and women in prison to earn time in house arrest or halfway homes instead of prison cells, require them to be placed within 500 miles of family, outlaw shackling during child birth and mandate the provision of sanitary napkins and tampons to female inmates, according to a copy of the latest language obtained by Axios.
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Sen. Patty MurrayPatricia (Patty) Lynn MurrayOvernight Health Care: Planned Parenthood to leave federal family planning program absent court action | Democrats demand Trump withdraw rule on transgender health | Cummings, Sanders investigate three drug companies for 'obstructing' probe Democrats demand Trump officials withdraw rule on transgender health The Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate MORE (D-Wash.), along with 21 co-sponsors, on Tuesday introduced legislation to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from detaining and shackling pregnant migrant women.
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It also would put in place a laundry list of minor, seemingly common sense (or at least common decency) requirements that would make a world of difference for women behind bars and their families on the other side, including a guarantee that the BOP update its policies to ban the shackling and solitary confinement of pregnant women; train correctional officers on how to interact with victims of trauma; cease charging inmates for phone calls and require video conferencing at every facility, free of charge; as well as enable more contact between incarcerated women and their families, among other reforms.
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