TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jun 23, 2020

The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill last week requiring jails and prisons to provide healthy meals and medical care to women both before and after they give birth, WPLN reports. The legislation, SB1839/HB1651, passed unanimously through the House and Senate. The Tennessee Department of Correction already has policies in place to provide special diets for pregnant inmates, but pregnancy-related care is not uniformly administered in the correctional system, especially among the dozens of county jails. The bill is meant to standardize access at both prisons and jails.