Seattle 911: A Police Blog: DOC settles with woman shackled during childbirth, by Levi Pulkkinen:
The Department of Corrections will pay $125,000 to settle a civilclaim by a former inmate who was shackled as she gave birth while incustody.
Former inmate Casandra Brawley filed the suit after giving birth to her son in April 2007 at a Tacoma hospital.
"We are pleased that our client has been compensated for what sheendured, and that the legislature has eliminated any possibility ofwomen in prison experiencing this treatment," said Brawley's attorneySara Ainsworth, of the women's rights organization Legal Voice. . . .