RCW 72.09.588
Pregnant inmates—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations.
(1) The department must make reasonable accommodations for the provision of available midwifery or doula services to inmates who are pregnant or who have given birth in the last six weeks. Persons providing midwifery or doula services must be granted appropriate facility access, must be allowed to attend and provide assistance during labor and childbirth where feasible, and must have access to the inmate's relevant health care information, as defined in RCW 70.02.010, if the inmate authorizes disclosure.
(2) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Doula services" are services provided by a trained doula and designed to provide physical, emotional, or informational support to a pregnant woman before, during, and after delivery of a child. Doula services may include, but are not limited to: Support and assistance during labor and childbirth; prenatal and postpartum education; breastfeeding assistance; parenting education; and support in the event that a woman has been or will become separated from her child.
(b) "Midwifery services" means medical aid rendered by a midwife to a woman during prenatal, intrapartum, or postpartum stages or to a woman's newborn up to two weeks of age.
(c) "Midwife" means a midwife licensed under chapter 18.50 RCW or an advanced registered nurse practitioner licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW.
(3) Nothing in this section requires the department to establish or provide funding for midwifery or doula services, or prevents the department from adopting policy guidelines for the delivery of midwifery or doula services to inmates. Services provided under this section may not supplant health care services routinely provided to the inmate.
[ 2018 c 41 § 1.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.
72.09.010 - Legislative intent.
72.09.030 - Department created—Secretary.
72.09.040 - Transfer of functions from department of social and health services.
72.09.050 - Powers and duties of secretary.
72.09.055 - Affordable housing—Inventory of suitable property.
72.09.057 - Fees for reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents and records.
72.09.060 - Organization of department—Program for public involvement and volunteers.
72.09.070 - Correctional industries advisory committee—Recommendations.
72.09.090 - Correctional industries account—Expenditure—Profits—Appropriations.
72.09.095 - Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation.
72.09.100 - Inmate work program—Classes of work programs—Participation—Benefits.
72.09.101 - Inmate work program—Administrators' duty.
72.09.104 - Prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems.
72.09.106 - Subcontracting of data input and microfilm capacities.
72.09.116 - Information obtained under RCW 72.09.115 exempt from public disclosure.
72.09.120 - Distribution of list of inmate job opportunities.
72.09.130 - Incentive system for participation in education and work programs—Rules—Dissemination.
72.09.135 - Adoption of standards for correctional facilities.
72.09.190 - Legal services for inmates.
72.09.200 - Transfer of files, property, and appropriations.
72.09.210 - Transfer of employees.
72.09.220 - Employee rights under collective bargaining.
72.09.225 - Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors.
72.09.230 - Duties continued during transition.
72.09.240 - Reimbursement of employees for offender assaults.
72.09.251 - Communicable disease prevention guidelines.
72.09.260 - Litter cleanup programs—Requirements.
72.09.270 - Individual reentry plan.
72.09.275 - Duty to notify of process for restoration of voting rights.
72.09.280 - Community justice centers.
72.09.285 - Rental voucher list—Housing providers.
72.09.290 - Correctional facility siting list.
72.09.300 - Local law and justice council—Rules.
72.09.310 - Community custody violator.
72.09.311 - Confinement of community custody violators.
72.09.315 - Court-ordered treatment—Violations—Required notifications.
72.09.320 - Community placement—Liability.
72.09.333 - Sex offenders—Facilities on McNeil Island.
72.09.335 - Sex offenders—Treatment assessment and opportunity.
72.09.337 - Sex offenders—Rules regarding.
72.09.380 - Rule making—Medicaid—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority.
72.09.400 - Work ethic camp program—Findings—Intent.
72.09.410 - Work ethic camp program—Generally.
72.09.465 - Postsecondary degree education programs.
72.09.467 - Postsecondary degree education programs—Reports to the legislature.
72.09.469 - Postsecondary degree education programs—Study.
72.09.470 - Inmate contributions for cost of privileges—Standards.
72.09.490 - Policy on extended family visitation.
72.09.495 - Incarcerated parents—Policies to encourage family contact and engagement.
72.09.500 - Prohibition on weight-lifting.
72.09.520 - Limitation on purchase of televisions.
72.09.530 - Prohibition on receipt or possession of contraband—Rules.
72.09.540 - Inmate name change—Limitations on use—Penalty.
72.09.560 - Camp for alien offenders.
72.09.580 - Offender records and reports.
72.09.588 - Pregnant inmates—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations.
72.09.600 - Rules—Chapter 196, Laws of 1999.
72.09.620 - Extraordinary medical placement—Reports.
72.09.630 - Custodial sexual misconduct—Investigation of allegations.
72.09.650 - Use of force by limited authority Washington peace officers—Detention of persons.
72.09.670 - Gang involvement among incarcerated offenders—Intervention programs—Study.
72.09.680 - Statewide security advisory committee.
72.09.682 - Multidisciplinary teams—Inmate job assignments.
72.09.684 - Training curriculum—Safety issues—Total confinement correctional facilities.
72.09.686 - Body alarms and proximity cards—Study and report.
72.09.688 - Video monitoring cameras—Study and report.
72.09.690 - Pepper spray—Plan for use.
72.09.710 - Drug offenders—Notice of release or escape.
72.09.716 - Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Requests for notification.
72.09.718 - Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Notification as additional requirement.
72.09.720 - Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Consequences of failure to notify.
72.09.730 - Schools—Notice to designated recipient of offender release.
72.09.745 - Security threat groups—Information collection.
72.09.750 - Access to reentry programs and services for wrongly convicted persons.
72.09.755 - Department of corrections—Use of screening and assessment process.
72.09.760 - Facility commissary program—Access.
72.09.765 - Inmate access to telecommunication services—Contracting—Reporting.
72.09.770 - Unexpected fatality review—Records—Discovery.
72.09.775 - Body scanner program—Report to the governor and legislature.
72.09.900 - Effective date—1981 c 136.
72.09.902 - Construction—1981 c 136.
72.09.903 - Savings—1981 c 136.
72.09.904 - Construction—1999 c 196.
72.09.905 - Short title—1999 c 196.
72.09.906 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.