After a woman gave birth in a New York City courtroom earlier this month, New York lawmakers are pushing for anti-shackling bills that would strengthen protections for pregnant prisoners and women in custody.
"A public defender in the courtroom that night said [Samantha] Randazzo," who had been charged with a low-level drug offense, had her hands "cuffed behind her back while she waited to be arraigned," the Gothamist's Samantha Max reported on Wednesday. "But officials said the restraints were removed once it became clear she was in labor."
