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Photo: 123RF Two separate reports by the Office of the Childrens Commissioner into the Mothers with Babies Unit (MBU) in prisons have found multiple incidents where women were handcuffed before, during and after giving birth. A 2019 report into the MBU in Auckland found female prisoners were handcuffed in labour or soon after birth in hospital. A 2020 report into a Christchurch unit found handcuffing shortly after giving birth and while in the late stages of pregnancy. It is illegal for female ...

These were not historical accounts of 19th century institutional cruelty, or tales involving some mad faraway sect. They were appalling, shaming depictions of childbirth from women under the care, or control anyway, of New Zealand’s Department of Corrections. Let the record show that these accounts, published by Stuff on Sunday, conflict in vivid and explicit ways with the generalised assurances from the department about what its policy is. Let the record also show policies and practices...

Women prisoners are afraid to feed their newborns with handcuffs on. Why is this allowed to happen?