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Colorado Law Creates “Rebuttable Presumption” Against Incarcerating Pregnant Women by On August 7, 2023, a new law took effect in Colorado directing judges to provide bonds and alternatives to incarceration for defendants who are pregnant or who recently gave birth. HB23-1187 was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis (D) …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Alabama Woman Jailed for “Fetal Endangerment” Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Shower by Among the worst places to put a pregnant woman, a jail cell ranks fairly high. Yet that’s exactly where Ashley Caswell found herself—jailed in Alabama’s Etowah County for “fetal endangerment.” Ultimately …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Louisiana Prison Guard Helps Pregnant Prisoner and Learns That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished by When she met a pregnant young prisoner struggling with drug addiction, a guard at Louisiana’s Transition Center for Women (TCW) offered to care for the baby when it was born. On May 17, 2023, the …
From Crisis to Care-Ending the Health Harm of Women's Prison-Feb. 2023 February 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report aims to center the experiences of people incarcerated in California women’s prisons, which remain a serious and entrenched public health crisis. According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), …
Article • September 29, 2022
Mom Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth to Doomed Baby in “Georgia’s Toughest Para-Military Jail” by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman On September 2, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia accepted an amended complaint from a former detainee in the Clayton County Jail who …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Over the course of its 233-year history, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has reversed its prior decisions on occasion. Until now those reversals have generally been to expand constitutional rights for the populace, …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$250,000 Paid to Woman Forced to Give Birth in California Jail Cell by Guards and CFMG Nurses by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye A woman who gave birth in a cell in 2017 at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, has been awarded $250,000 to settle a lawsuit she …
Edwards v. Hooks, NC, Complaint, Shackling Pregnant Prisoners, 2021 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA TRACEY EDWARDS, Plaintiff, v. ERIK HOOKS, in his official capacity as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, BENITA WITHERSPOON, in her personal capacity, CLAUDETTE EDWARDS, in her …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
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Broad Support for North Carolina Bill to Bar Shackling Pregnant Prisoners by Daniel Matheson by Daniel Matheson On April 20, 2021 a bipartisan bill entitled the “Dignity for Women Who Are Incarcerated Act” was filed in the North Carolina state legislature. The bill would end the degrading act of shackling …
Doe v. NYPD, NY, Settlement, Retstraints on Pregnant Prisoners, 2021 Case 1:20-cv-01344-ARR-LB Document 47-2 Filed 03/18/21 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 260 Exhibit A Case 1:20-cv-01344-ARR-LB Document 47-2 Filed 03/18/21 Page 2 of 7 PageID #: 261 81,7('67$7(6',675,&7&2857 ($67(51',675,&72)1(:<25. [ -$1('2(RQKHURZQEHKDOIDQGRQEHKDOIRIKHU PLQRUVRQ%$%<'2( 3ODLQWLIIV DJDLQVW 67,38/$7,21$1' 25'(52) 6(77/(0(17$1' ',6&217,18$1&( &9 …
Doe v. NYPD, NY, Amended Complaint, Restraints on Pregnant Prisoners, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-01344-ARR-LB Document 25 Filed 10/27/20 Page 1 of 35 PageID #: 149 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK JANE DOE, on her own behalf and on behalf of her minor son, BABY DOE, Plaintiff, No. …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Baby Dies Days After Prisoner Gives Birth in Isolation Cell at Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 17, 2018, baby Cashh arrived in the world, slipping out of his mother onto the floor of an isolation cell at the Ellis County Jail in Texas. Cashh survived …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Australian Woman Gives Birth in Cell After Guards Can’t Unlock the Door by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin In January 2018, an unnamed prisoner at Western Australia&rsquo;s Bandyup Women&rsquo;s Prison was forced to give birth alone and crying for help while guards struggled to unlock the door to her cell. …
Canadian Woman Wins Settlement for Death of Son Born in Jail by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Julie Bilotta obtained a settlement from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in the Canadian province of Ontario after staff took nine hours to call emergency personnel when she went into early labor. Her son, …
Article • August 5, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Pennsylvania: Settlement Changes Jail’s Policy for Treatment of Pregnant Prisoners by A settlement agreement has been reached that improves the conditions of confinement for pregnant women held at the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The agreement ends the routine placement of pregnant prisoners into solitary confinement. The civil …
Article • July 2, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Tennessee Judge Ends Sentence Reductions for Prisoners Who Agree to Sterilization; Receives Reprimand by David Reutter by David Reutter A Tennessee state court judge has reversed course on a controversial sentence reduction program following an uproar from civil rights and prisoners&rsquo; rights advocates. He later received a public letter of …
Mass Incarceration is a Women’s Issue, Too by Jessicah Pierre by Jessicah Pierre, OtherWords Over the last few years, our broken criminal justice system has become a national issue as horrific stories of victims of mass incarceration have made their way into the mainstream media. The dominant narrative around this …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
New Policies for Federal and State Prisoners Guarantee Feminine Hygiene Products by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Within 30 days after the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act (S.1524) was introduced by U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and three of her colleagues &ndash; a bill that seeks to compel the federal Bureau …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
New Mexico Prisoner Obtains Court Order to Allow Breastfeeding by In June 2017, a New Mexico state court issued a temporary restraining order that required the Department of Corrections (DOC) to allow a prisoner to breastfeed her baby during regular visitation hours, and to pump breast milk so her child …
Lawsuits Challenge Treatment of Pregnant Prisoners at Milwaukee County Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Five women who served time at Wisconsin&rsquo;s Milwaukee County jail have filed lawsuits against the county and former Sheriff David Clarke, Jr., alleging mistreatment while they were pregnant &ndash; including shackling, the death of …
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