“It is unconscionable that any woman, particularly a mentally ill woman, would be abandoned in her cell to deliver her own baby,” Finkelstein wrote in the Friday letter, which was first obtained and reported by The Miami Herald . Behind bars and alone in a Florida jail cell, a pregnant, mentally ill woman complained late at night of contractions and beseeched the prison guards for help. Breaking: @miamiherald Broward’s public defender says a pregnant woman with a mental illness was left alone in a cell in the North Broward jail run by @browardsheriff last month as she gave birth to her baby. The guards, Finkelstein said, attempted to contact an on-call doctor but weren’t able to reach him for almost four hours. In the interim, Jackson was allegedly left alone in her cell, without medication or assistance.

Source: Huffington Post May 05, 2019 13:41 UTC