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90_HB3891
730 ILCS 5/3-6-7 new
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that
when a pregnant female committed person brought to a hospital
from an Illinois correctional center for the purpose of
delivering her baby, no handcuffs, shackles, or restraints of
any kind shall be used during her transport to a medical
facility for the purpose of delivering her baby. Prohibits
irons or shackles or waist shackles from being used on a
pregnant female committed person who is in labor. Requires a
correctional officer to be posted immediately outside the
delivery room upon the pregnant female committed person's
entry to that room. Requires the Department of Corrections
to provide for adequate personnel to monitor the pregnant
female committed person during her transport to and from the
hospital and during her stay at the hospital.
LRB9012601RCks
LRB9012601RCks
1 AN ACT to amend the Unified Code of Corrections by adding
2 Section 3-6-7.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
6 adding Section 3-6-7 as follows:
7 (730 ILCS 5/3-6-7 new)
8 Sec. 3-6-7. Pregnant female committed persons.
9 Notwithstanding any other statute, directive or
10 administrative regulation, when a pregnant female committed
11 person is brought to a hospital from an Illinois correctional
12 center for the purpose of delivering her baby, no handcuffs,
13 shackles, or restraints of any kind shall be used during her
14 transport to a medical facility for the purpose of delivering
15 her baby. Under no circumstances shall leg irons or shackles
16 or waist shackles be used on any pregnant female committed
17 person who is in labor. Upon the pregnant female committed
18 person's entry to the hospital delivery room, a correctional
19 officer must be posted immediately outside the delivery room.
20 The Department must provide for adequate personnel to monitor
21 the pregnant female committed person during her transport to
22 and from the hospital and during her stay at the hospital.