More than four hours later, members of the sheriff’s office spoke to the on-call doctor, who said "he would check when he arrived,” according to Finkelstein. That was around 10 a.m.For the seven preceding hours, Jackson was locked in a jail cell, alone. She was bleeding, in labor, and then forced to birth her baby on her own — conduct which Finkelstein called “outrageous” and “inhumane” treatment. “It is unconscionable that any woman, particularly a mentally ill woman, would be abandoned in her cell to deliver her own baby,” he wrote in the scathing letter to the Sheriff’s Office. “Medical records indicate her baby was born at term; the birth was not premature or unexpected,” Finkelstein wrote.

Source: Washington Post May 04, 2019 19:59 UTC