A real happy ending

The bill took some big strides on Monday.

First, it made it out of the House Judiciary Committee on vote of 10 to 1 in favor. I testified first, followed by a long list of witnesses ranging from activists to a former inmate who gave birth shackled to legal experts to an OB/GYN and Laraine, the nurse-midwife.

One of the lawmakers really didn't understand what was at stake and kept asking how we planned to protect the guards from these dangerous women if they were unshackled. Clearly, this man ha...