Police are investigating the death of a baby in Britain’s largest female prison after an inmate gave birth alone in her cell at night. A source with knowledge of the events said that when prison staff visited the woman’s cell on Friday morning the baby was unresponsive. According to the Prison Reform Trust, women made up 5% of the prison population in 2018 with 7,745 women incarcerated. It is an indictment of our prison system that a woman was giving birth in a prison cell. “This is horrifying and exposes the utter inhumanity of a prison system where a woman can give birth alone in a cell and the baby dies..

Source: The Guardian October 04, 2019 11:03 UTC