Officials Fired After Forcing Mentally unwell women to provide beginning alone in jail Cells
Tammy Jackson was pregnant and in solitary for a trespassing charge—unable to pay her own bail—when she went into labor. Her cries for help went unanswered by officers at the jail, and as a result, she gave birth by herself, and her daughter Miranda spent her first moments on Earth in a very dark concrete room designed to carry serial killers. The fact that a mother gave birth by herself in an exceedingly concrete cell is horrifying and one would think that the Broward County Sheriff’s office would take action to form sure it never happened again. However, one would be wrong. Last month, another unstable woman was forced to provide birth to her son in an exceedingly prison cell , in line with a letter sent to Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony by the Broward Public Defender’s Office. “She was denied the dignity of a single bed and therefore the assistance of a...