Daily review 17/05/2021

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    Yei! Good news. A bit late, and such, but good news nevertheless.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300309717/shackled-at-birth-corrections-says-it-will-stop-chaining-heavily-pregnant-and-postpartum-prisoners

    The Department of Corrections says it will no longer shackle pregnant prisoners past 30 weeks and while they are in hospital after birth.

    The policy change comes after Stuff revealed women were being handcuffed to their hospital beds before, during and after labour, sometimes with prison officers in the room, with multiple instances in the past two years alone.

    This was despite an Ombudsman report 17 years ago condemning the practice, and handcuffing in labour being condemned as illegal and against the department's policy.

    In an interview, Corrections chief executive Jeremy Lightfoot ​said the previous policy, which allowed the handcuffing of pregnant and post-partum women, “didn’t do the best job for responding to the needs of women”.

    He said the new policy, which specifically stated no mechanical restraints could be used on any pregnant prisoner past 30 weeks, during labour or before returning to prison post-partum, would make it clear to staff what was acceptable.

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    And this here for something altogether different and quite enjoyable and good.

    Sir Tom Jones, and i think he may have run out of bothers to give. 🙂

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        yes, quite unexpected. But then he is also 80 years old and may really not care anymore about upsetting some people.

    1. 3.1

      Thanks Sacha, wonderfully honest monologue, from the series finale of "Good Night With Assaf Harel", Feb/Mar(?) 2017.

      Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2017

      Anyone know what happened to Assaf Harel – what's he up to now?

      Video: ‘Apartheid has been here for ages. It doesn’t really bother us’ — Israeli comedian says in closing act

      “Israel’s most impressive innovation, more than any high-tech project, or Rafael weapon, is our amazing ability to ignore what is happening mere kilometers away to our neighbors,” Harel said.

      The Israeli daily Haaretz reported Harel’s show aired on Channel 10 and was recently canceled. “Good night” was known for its political content, and fined once for accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of capitalizing off of the death of his brother, Yonatan Netanyahu, a commando killed in the 1976 Operation Entebbe.

      In 2016 Harel received more than 300 death threats related to his liberal show. But of all of Harel comedic forays into politics, this “apartheid” speech was the first to grab headlines in English (and in German).

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