When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby. There were no family members, no friends. Congious wasn’t even ...
Pregnant women are locked up, often for petty crimes, and say their cries for help go ignored. They are miscarrying or giving birth in excruciating pain into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.