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A female inmate in Florida, USA, gave birth to a baby girl in June while in solitary confinement after she allegedly impregnated herself. Daisy Link reportedly used semen passed by a fellow male ...
After nearly dying while giving birth due to a placental abruption, Caswell was treated with “contempt” by jail staff, who are accused of refusing to provide her with further medical care ...
An inmate at a Tennessee jail gave birth alone in a cell after seeking medical help, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said. The deputy contacted medical staff and a licensed practical nurse ...
In general, pregnant inmates are transported to outside medical facilities to give birth, because most correctional facilities are not medically equipped to provide such services. These transports often result in complications due to the risk of injury to both the mother and the child, and due to the additional stress. [7]
The use of shackles or restraints on pregnant women is a common practice in prisons and jails in the United States. [1] Shackling is defined as "using any physical restraint or mechanical device to control the movement of a prisoner's body or limbs, including handcuffs, leg shackles, and belly chains". [2]
This stemmed from a series of illegal strip-searches of prisoners at the jail in 2017, including one inmate who was menstruating and another who was transitioning from female to male. Justice Julian Knowles described the illegal procedures as "humiliating and embarrassing". [11] In October 2019, a woman gave birth alone in her cell at HMP ...
A county jail inmate in Texas claims she was forced to give birth to her newborn in her cell after her cries of help were ignored by officers.
From 1996 to 2006, Megan Huntsman, an American woman, murdered six of her newborn children shortly after giving birth to them in Utah. [1] [2] [3]The serial infanticide was discovered in April 2014 when Hunstman's ex-husband Darren West began cleaning out the garage of the Pleasant Grove house he once shared with her. [4]