Pregnant woman asked jail staff for help, Hours later, she was alone in a cell, holding newborn

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/us/woman-gives-birth-jail-cell-broward-florida/index.html

Pregnant woman asked jail staff for help, lawyers say. Hours later, she was alone in a cell, holding her newborn

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An hour and 38 minutes later, Jackson told her lawyers, she was still in the jail cell by herself, bleeding, "and no urgency was demonstrated by your staff," the lawyers wrote.

"Six hours and 54 minutes after asking for help, a (Broward Sheriff's Office) tech notified medical staff that Ms. Jackson was holding her newborn baby in her arms, having delivered the baby without medication or the assistance of a physician," the letter said.

The sheriff's office has launched an investigation into the delivery, said spokeswoman Gina Carter. A doctor and two nurses provided Jackson care after she gave birth at the North Broward Bureau, Carter said, and the child "was placed with an appropriate caregiver."

After providing a short statement via email, Carter said CNN would have to file an official records request to see the incident report filed after Jackson gave birth.

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"Not only was Ms. Jackson's health callously ignored, the life of her child was also put at grave risk."
How the incident will affect the woman's "already fragile mental health" remains to be determined, they lawyers said.

Other inmates heard Jackson's screams during labor, CNN affiliate WPLG reported. Jackson's mother, Shirley Nixon, told the station she did not realize her daughter, who she said is bipolar and schizophrenic, had given birth in a jail cell rather than a hospital.
"I figured she was born in the hospital," Nixon said of her granddaughter. "They didn't tell me none of this. Where were they?"

[SunSeeker]

1. Sickening. The poor woman and her baby.

[Rambling Man]

2. Black woman or woman of color, amirite?

this country is horrifying, the South, twice as horrifying.

What that poor woman must have felt. Dear God in heaven.

[MiniMe]

3. Of course

There is a pic of the woman and her baby at the link

[Rambling Man]

4. Slavery never ended

White people still have this fixation with controlling black/POC physical bodies, just like they've always done.

[Bettie]

5. First off, she should have been somewhere they could treat

her if she's mentally ill. A jail isn't that place.

Second, there is no fucking excuse for them not giving her appropriate care when she was in labor.

Third, WTF is wrong with people. Is there no compassion, no decency anymore?

Never mind, I know the answer to that question.

Glad that mother and baby survived, despite the lack of care.