- Correctional officers should be trained to recognize labor.
- Legislators should define the term “restraint” in state law to include handcuffs, leg irons, belly chains, or other mechanical devices.
- The Texas Commission on Jail Standards should create a standard (through agency rules) requiring reporting any time the public safety exception to the bar on shackling is used and restraints are used on a pregnant inmate during transport, labor, or delivery.
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