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Protest calls for end to pregnant women in prison


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A demonstration has been held outside a jail calling for an end to imprisoning pregnant women and new mothers.

Former inmates and women with children were among those at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey on Saturday, on the third anniversary of a baby's death there.

One protester, Anna Harley, who gave birth in jail, said it was a trauma that "will live with me for ever".

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said custody "was already a last resort" and it had made "significant improvements".

Janey Starling, co-director of Level Up, said despite the death of two babies in prison in the past three years, "very little has changed".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-63025914

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Pregnant women at a prison in which a teenager gave birth alone in her cell to a baby later found dead have been given rape alarms to carry to summon urgent assistance, the Guardian has learned.

Aisha Cleary died in her mother’s cell at the privately run HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, the biggest women’s prison in Europe, in September 2019.

Although Rianna Cleary, who was 18 at the time, had repeatedly pressed her “cell bell” to summon assistance, she was in labour for more than 12 hours before anyone came to help her – by which time she was covered in blood with her dead baby. She had bitten through the umbilical cord as she had no other way to sever it.

The revelation has led to renewed calls from campaigners to end the incarceration of pregnant women. In 2022-23, there were 44 births by women in custody in England and Wales, 98% of them in hospital.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/21/uk-prison-hmp-bronzefield-pregnant-women-aisha-cleary

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