Japan Broadens Ban on Restraints of Jailed Women in Labor

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A sign reads "check door lock" on a gate inside Tochigi prison, Japan's largest women's prison, January 31, 2019. © 2019 Yo Nagaya During a Diet session last week, Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced it had broadened a directive initially sent to all penal institutions in 2014 that effectively bans the use of restraints on imprisoned pregnant women inside delivery rooms. The reform is a much-needed step in protecting the rights of women in Japan’s prisons. The new directive, issued on March 18, now includes an effective ban on handcuffing pregnant women during “transportation…

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