Shackling prisoners in hospital

doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7040.1228

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Is unnecessary and avoidable

Elliot E Philipp

Retired consultant obstetrician 166 Rivermead Court, London SW6 3SF

EDITOR,—Luisa Dillner's editorial and Beverley Beech's personal view, giving an account of the effects of shackling a pregnant woman from Holloway Prison, sickened me.

From 1962 to 1982 I was by the invitation of a succession of senior medical officers and governors of Holloway Prison the consultant to the prison for gynaecology and obstetrics.

During those 20 years about 800 women prisoners were delivered in the City of London Maternity Hospital and later the Whittington Hospital, in beds for …