Milwaukee sheriff’s deputies kept an inmate shackled as she gave birth. Jurors will decide if it was legal
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Journal-Sentinel
June 5, 2017

“A federal jury will be asked this week to decide whether it was legal for Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office deputies to keep a female inmate shackled to her hospital bed during childbirth.

“The case, scheduled to begin Monday, was filed by a former Milwaukee County Jail inmate who delivered a child in October 2013 while chained to a hospital bed. She is not named in court documents.”

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