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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="11-206" title_number="11" title_name="Local Correctional Facilities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Safety, Health, and Welfare of Incarcerated Individuals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If a representation is made to the managing official of a local correctional facility that an incarcerated individual in the custody of the managing official is pregnant, the managing official may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>before the anticipated birth, have the incarcerated individual transferred from the local correctional facility to another facility that provides comfortable accommodations, maintenance, and medical care under supervision and safeguards that the managing official determines necessary to prevent the incarcerated individual’s escape from custody; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>return the incarcerated individual to the local correctional facility as soon after giving birth as the incarcerated individual’s health allows, as determined by the medical professional responsible for the care of the incarcerated individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The use of physical restraints on an incarcerated individual during a transfer made under this section shall be in accordance with § 9–601 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
