The California legislature has passed a bill under the guise of prison reform that will actually do more harm than good for pregnant people.

This legislation, AB 2527, would allow prisons to place pregnant people in solitary confinement for up to five days. Solitary confinement has been clearly shown to cause long-term harm to all incarcerated people, pregnant or not. Instead of codifying the use of solitary confinement, we should be moving to eliminate it from our prison system entirely. 

This bill is on Gov. Newsom's desk, and we need make sure he vetoes it! Please call Gov. Newsom's office right now.