Pregnant Women In Prison Essay

In this week's chapter something that really jumped out at me was pregnancies within a jail or prison. this is something that I've never really thought about as I imagined it didn't happen all that often, but I was wrong. Pregnant and behind bars is said to be abusive to future mothers. This raises huge ethical and moral questions regarding should pregnant women be locked up. On the other hand, this means that a pregnant woman knowingly commits a crime while she had a baby in her. there a lot of things that play into this but one example of someone who is locked out of jail cell while pregnant is Nicole Guerriero she gave birth on a blood-covered mattress back in 2012 she's only eight and a half months pregnant and they filed a lawsuit Augusta County Jail because she began experiencing lower back pain cramps and bleeding on the 11th of June. more than four hours later she was taken to the nurse's station. the baby was dark purple and unresponsive with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck the empties then got there and rushed the baby to the hospital and she remained in the cell the baby that was pronounced dead at 6:30 a.m. some statistics on the situation …show more content…
with that being said there's no current date on how many of these women are pregnant. the survey back in 2003 by The Bureau said that around 4% of these women going into prison are in fact pregnant upon arrival. and almost 9000 - 10000 women are incarcerated who are pregnant. another big problem is that pregnant women need especially nutrient-rich food. nutritional defects can cause a baby to have all kinds of issues such as diabetes. there's also said that withholding healthy Woman is withholding Medical Care. but does that show favoritism two pregnant women while in prison? These are some very hard and difficult questions to answer. it directly relates to the chapter line page 145. so my question is should pregnant women be treated differently than that of a normal person while