ICE quietly... removed restrictions on "hog tying, fetal restraints, (and) tight restraints"

[Leghorn21]

ICE quietly loosened solitary confinement requirements, removed
restrictions on “hog-tying, fetal restraints, [and] tight restraints.,"
removed requirements for outdoor recreation areas + provisions
guaranteeing nonprofits have access to detention centers

Link to tweet

...Among the wide range of changes, ICE broadened the reasons a detainee can be placed in solitary confinement and removed language preventing officers from using “hog-tying, fetal restraints, [and] tight restraints.” The agency also extinguished requirements for new facilities to have outdoor recreation areas and provisions guaranteeing that nonprofit organizations have access to the detention centers. There were also significant revisions to protocols in the case of serious injury, illness, or death, such as allowing guards to notify ICE “as soon as practicable” (as opposed to immediately) that a detainee needs to be transferred to a hospital and removing any mention of how to proceed if a detainee dies during the transfer. Attorneys worry the revised standards will have a real impact on the way immigrants in custody are treated.

“ICE’s [revised] standards for these detention facilities have weakened protections for immigrant detainees across the board,” said Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project...

A fetal restraint refers to how to properly restrain a pregnant woman

I know there are no more things to say about ICE, but thought I’d post this anyway

Jfc

[Bayard]

1. fetal restraint

Conjured up visions of even more horrific abuse.

[janterry]

2. I've never worked for ICE and have nothing

good to say about them. However, a fetal restraint is used in psychiatric hospitals. I've seen it used for someone who was pregnant and psychotic. Women in that situation can be off of some of their medications (those that could harm the fetus). So, the restraint is just on their side - to ensure safety for both mom and the fetus.

[shanti]

3. Hog-tying??

If they did this to their child, they would be arrested. These people have no conscience.