Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

Officials in Congress and in states from Pennsylvania to California said they were alarmed by a Bloomberg Law and NBC News ...

This article was published in partnership with Bloomberg Law. When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby.

The ordeal of a woman who gave birth in an isolation cell in a Florida jail has prompted an internal investigation, and has set off a wave of outrage after her lawyers said her repeated cries for help ...

WAXAHACHIE -- Back in May, a small section of a local cemetery here called “Babyland” received another occupant. His name was Cashh. He was laid to rest in a little white coffin. He lived just nine ...

A woman in custody at the Johnson County Jail says she gave birth in her cell after she was denied proper care by staff. Victoria Boldon, 27, told KERA News during a phone call Saturday her baby was ...

Rather than preparing at home and purchasing baby clothes, expectant mothers serving jail sentences encounter a world filled with uncertainty, anxiety and distress. Between 2022 and 2023, nearly 200 ...