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Reproductive Health Care in Women’s Prisons “Painful” and “Traumatic” by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout It was Kim Dadou’s second day at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. As part of the prison’s intake process, she was brought to the prison’s medical unit for a gynecological exam and pap smear. …
Publication • February 16, 2016
Parents Behind Bars - What Happens to Their Children, Murohey & Cooper, 2015 Parents Behind Bars What Happens to Their Children? David Murphey and P. Mae Cooper October 2015 childtrends.org TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview 1 Key Findings and Implications 1 Background 2 Results 3 Who experiences parental incarceration? 3 Children …
Senate Letter to Director of FBOP re relocation of female inmates Danbury FCI, US Senate, 2013 tinitnl �tatrs �rnatr WASHINGTON. DC 20510 October 4, 2013 The Honorable Charles E. Samuels, Jr. Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street NW Washington, DC 20534 Dear Director Samuels: Thank you for your …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Guidelines for Implementation of Mother-Child Units in Canadian Correctional Facilities, CPPHE, 2015 GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOTHER-CHILD UNITS IN CANADIAN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES August 2015 This document is published and distributed by The Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE) The University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, …
Publication • February 8, 2016
Review of Research on Children with Incarcerated Parents, Children with Incarcerated Parents Initiative, 2015 Seven Out of Ten? Not Even Close. C E N T R A L C O N N E C T I C U T S T A T E U N I V E R …
“No Hope for Me”: Women Stripped of Parental Rights after Minor Crimes by Sharona Coutts “No Hope for Me”: Women Stripped of Parental Rights after Minor Crimes by Sharona Coutts and Zoe Greenberg, RH Reality Check Five years ago, LaDonna Hopkins was caught stealing clothes from a store in Rock …
Article • October 28, 2015
$1.00 Awarded to Arkansas Female Prisoner Shackled During Labor by $1.00 Awarded to Arkansas Female Prisoner Shackled During Labor In the United States District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas at Batesville, on July 15, 2010, plaintiff Shawanna Nelson, a prisoner serving an identity fraud sentence at the McPherson facility in …
Article • October 1, 2015
Pregnant Behind Bars by Victoria Law Pregnant Behind Bars The shameful lack of prenatal care in U.S. prisons and jails  by Victoria Law Reprinted with permission from In These Times magazine http://inthesetimes.com/article/18410/u.s.-prisons-are-threatening-the-lives-of-pregnant-mothers-and-newborns. At 5 a.m. on June 12, 2012, lying on a mat in a locked jail cell, without a …
Article • July 31, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Michigan: $8 Million Settlement after Prisoner’s Baby Born with Brain Damage by Shepherd Litsey Michigan: $8 Million Settlement after Prisoner’s Baby Born with Brain Damage by Shepherd Litsey In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, plaintiff Chelsie Barker (identified as C.B. in the pleadings), a minor, …
Article • June 11, 2015
$200,000 Verdict in Shackling of Tennessee Prisoner in Labor Overturned by Sixth Circuit by $200,000 Verdict in Shackling of Tennessee Prisoner in Labor Overturned by Sixth Circuit The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the grant of summary judgment to a woman who was shackled to a hospital bed …
Women, Incarcerated by Sharona Coutts Women, Incarcerated by Sharona Coutts and Zoe Greenberg, RH Reality Check Investigative Series Shows Systemic Abuses of Women in Prisons and Jails Keeley Schenwar learned she was pregnant the same day she was arrested. That spring of 2013, she didn’t pee on a stick and …
$250,000 Settlement for Women’s Loss of Child in CCA Tennessee Jail by $250,000 Settlement for Women’s Loss of Child in CCA Tennessee Jail Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $250,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming it provided inadequate medical care that caused her to lose her baby. Unable to make …
Pennsylvania: Wexford Settles Case Involving Death of Prisoner’s Baby by Pennsylvania: Wexford Settles Case Involving Death of Prisoner’s Baby A federal civil rights complaint filed in March 2013 accused employees of Wexford Health Sources of failing to provide appropriate medical care to a pregnant prisoner at Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County Prison …
Agreement to Limit Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Applauded by Agreement to Limit Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Applauded Civil rights groups and New York State officials are hailing as “historic” an agreement to enact sweeping reforms in the way the state’s prison system uses solitary …
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Despite Reforms, Shackling of Pregnant Prisoners Persists by Despite Reforms, Shackling of Pregnant Prisoners Persists In 2011, Valerie Nabors was serving a sentence at Nevada’s Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center in Las Vegas for stealing more than $250 in casino chips. She was pregnant and went into labor while incarcerated. …
$690,000 Settlement in HRDC Suit Over Death of Prisoner’s Baby at CCA Jail by Derek Gilna $690,000 Settlement in HRDC Suit Over Death of Prisoner’s Baby at CCA Jail by Derek Gilna In August 2014, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison firm, settled a federal lawsuit …
Publication • October 30, 2014
HRDC letter re Danbury prison transfers Aug 2013 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS August 28, 2013 SENT VIA FAX ONLY Senator Patrick Leahy 437 Russell Senate Bldg United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 RE: Transfer of Female Prisoners from Danbury, CT Facility Dear Senator Leahy: As …
Clemons v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Settlement, CCA medical neglect pregnant inmate infant death, 2014 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0378 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0379 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0380 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0381 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0382 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0383
Publication • July 17, 2014
Filed under: Mothers in Prison
NV DOC - Breast Pumping Program, Ad. Reg. 657, 2014 NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION 657 BREAST PUMPING PROGRAM Supersedes: Effective Date: NEW AUTHORITY: NRS 209.131 RESPONSIBILITY The Director of Nursing (DON) at Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center (FMWCC) will be responsible for the oversight of the administration of …
Clemons v. CCA, TN, Order Sanctioning CCA for Spoliation, Death of Pregnant Prisoner's Child, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA COUNTESS CLEMONS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) 1:11-CV-339 v. ) ) Judge Curtis L. Collier CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF ) AMERICA, INC., et al., ) ) …
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