Since 2010 Reentry Central has posted articles on the horrible experiences of pregnant women in prison. Five years later, although many states have made serious efforts to provide adequate medical care and make birthing behind bars less traumatic, there is still a deep rooted problem of neglect and indifference in prisons and jails throughout the country that has led to dead newborns and seriously ill mothers.
On September 28 In These Times published the findings of an investigation that found instances of miscarriages, stillbirths, life threatening complications due to pre- and post natal medical neglect and gut wrenching accounts of the women who experienced them.
Read U.S. Prisons and Jails Are Threatening the Lives of Pregnant Women and Babies here.
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