LETTER: Post-natal escape: sleep and bed

Saturday 13 January 1996 00:02 GMT

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From Ms Mary North

Sir: Regarding the continuing correspondence about shackling pregnant and post-natal women prisoners: after the births of my three children, I was grateful to be wheeled back to the ward, because tottering was as much as I could manage.

The only escape on my mind was to a clean bed and a good sleep.

Yours sincerely,

Mary North

Wirksworth,

Derbyshire

11 January

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