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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

Shackling prisoners giving birth should be a last resort – but it’s happening around Australia anyway

A pregnant woman's hands rest on her belly, wrists bound by orange thread stitched into the photo

“She was pregnant with twins,” Tahlia Isaac says. “She was meant to be released in 10 days, but she went into labour early.”

Isaac says officers handcuffed her fellow prisoner in the back of a van and took her away.

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