An Alabama woman was forced to endure nearly 12 hours of excruciating labor alone in a jail cell as staff refused to take her to a hospital, according to a new federal civil rights lawsuit. While in ...

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An incarcerated woman was forced to give birth alone in a Tennessee jail on Sunday. The woman and her baby were hospitalized after the birth, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office told the Associated ...

A cell at the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth. A judge has allowed a woman who gave birth alone in her jail cell in 2020 to sue the doctor in charge of her care. A woman who gave birth alone in her ...

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Jail staff ignored a pregnant woman in labor and didn’t take her to a hospital, a federal lawsuit says. Getty Images/iStockphoto An Alabama woman was forced to endure nearly 12 hours of excruciating ...