"The Police Department’s patrol guide instructs officers: 'Do not remove handcuffs or leg restraints, unless requested by attending physician.' Such requests are almost never granted, legal service lawyers and psychiatrists say."
nytimes.com/2026/05/20/nyregio…
#healthcare #hospitals #MentalHealth #police #LawEnforcement #incarceration
"This is not a failure of policy; it is reproductive injustice as white supremacist warfare, waged against the most vulnerable to enforce a brutal demographic and ideological order."
"[P]erfected in Texas and exported nationwide."
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Author: Ja'Loni Amor Owens
Publication: Prism
March 25, 2026
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#Texas #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
prismreports.org/2026/03/25/te…
Texas houses the country’s only family detention centers and has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the U.S., but it is also home to powerful reproductive justice and migrant rights movementsJa’Loni Amor Owens (Prism)
