From Truthout:
Crystal Muñoz was four months pregnant when federal agents knocked on her door. They assured the Texas mother that she wasn’t in any trouble; they just wanted to know about a map she had drawn for some people two years earlier. Little did she know that talking with them would lead to a 20-year prison sentence — and delivering her baby with her wrist and ankle cuffed to a hospital bed.
Federal agents arrested Muñoz for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. The courts allowed her to stay at home with her husband and months-old daughter until the end of her trial. When a jury convicted her in October 2007, she was sent to the Ector County Detention Center to await sentencing. By then, she was in her last trimester.
“It was horrible to be in there at all,” Muñoz told Truthout, “but to be pregnant [in that jail] was super-awful.” Continue reading >>>
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