Shackling prisoners giving birth should be a last resort – but it’s happening around Australia anyway

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Shackling prisoners giving birth should be a last resort – but it’s happening around Australia anyway

Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced a bill to prohibit the practice in Australian prisons that advocates say violates the human rights of both mother and child Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast “She was pregnant with twins,” Tahlia Isaac says. “She was meant to be released in 10 days, but she went into labour early.” Isaac says officers handcuffed her fellow prisoner in the back of a van a…