Legislators and Human Rights Activists Hail end of Shackling Incarcerated Pregnant Women

Velmanette Montgomery

May 19, 2009

Press Conference Photograph
 
L-R- Tamar Kraft-Stolar, Women in Prison Project Director Correctional Association of New York;Serena Alfieri, Women in Prison Project Associate Director of Policy, The Correctional Association of New York; Carole, formerly incarcerated woman who was pregnant in prison; Tina, formerly incarcerated woman who was pregnant in prison; Senator Velmanette Montgomery; M., Tracey Brooks, President and CEO of Family Planning Advocates of New York State; Dana Sussman, The Center for Reproductive Rights; Meghan Rhoad, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch