Nursing Mothers-Accommodations

(a)The Director of the Department of Corrections must make reasonable efforts to provide a breast pump and a sanitary room, other than a toilet stall, or a private area where a nursing mother confined at the Department of Corrections facilities can express her milk.

(b)A nursing mother confined at the Department of Corrections facilities may be allowed to breastfeed her child in a sanitary room, other than a toilet stall, or a private area as long as safeguards are in place, as determined by the Director, to prevent her escape and as long as it is not a threat to the infant’s and the public’s safety and welfare.