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| Court to rehear childbirth-shackles case |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 08/29/2008 |
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ARKANSAS - A federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to rehear a pregnant inmate's claim that the state prison system violated her rights when it shackled her as she was in labor. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis set aside a panel's decision last month that Arkansas Department of Correction Director Larry Norris and guard Patricia Turnesky should be immune from the lawsuit by former inmate Shawanna Nelson. The court granted Nelson's request for an "en banc" or full court review of the panel's decision. Nelson sued the prison system in 2004, claiming she experienced extreme mental anguish, pain and suffering from being shackled as she was in labor. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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