“ When I was in bed, I was begging the sheriff, ‘Please let me free — at least one hand,’ and he said, no, he didn’t want to,” Juana Villegas said in an interview with a local Nashville television station. She was describing the experience of being shackled to her hospital bed as she went into labor. Villegas gave birth in the sheriff’s custody, after she was stopped by local police while driving without a valid license.[...] Like Villegas, Alma Chacon, and Miriam Mendiola-Martinez gave birth in the United States shackled to their hospital beds, without their husbands, and in the presence of a prison guard. They also were not violent criminals, but rather, they were all undocumented and charged with an immigration-related offense in Sheriff Arpaio’s jurisdiction of Maricopa County, Arizona. »

midwestmountainmama:

tinfoilandtea:

I… what the shit is this? Why would anyone think this is okay?

I need everybody to understand: attacks on abortion—the unending intensification of personhood laws *will* *not* *stop*—until we look at what WHITE SUPREMACIST joe arpaio is doing and enforcing against immigrant women in Arizona and see that the two are so intertwined as to be inseparable. 

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    wow that’s fucked up.
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    This has been common practice in jails and prisons for years. I remember hearing Lynn Paltrow from National Advocates...
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    ^What she said. I remember reading something a while ago about this. It’s very upsetting how they’re treated, and during...
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    one thing you don’t want to do shackled and alone
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    This is fucking ridiculous.
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    things like this should not happen in a “civilised” society. SHOULD NOT HAPPEN!
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    Ch…wh….!?!? no words. really?!?
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    Arpaio is a psychopath, among other things.
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