Jail Outrage of the Day!

[Joanne98]

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Jail Outrage of the Day
By Jeralyn, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 04:43:00 PM EST
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In Pennsylvania, a pregnant inmate is left in her Lackawanna county jail cell alone during labor while guards monitor her with a camera and refuse her assistance.

Despite her pleas for help and screams, she was forced to give birth unattended. After the baby was born, a female jailer reportedly cut the umbilical cord with her fingernails. Only then, were mother and daughter brought to the hospital.

The county has praised the prison staff's actions.

County officials are contending the staff at the prison reacted "fantastically" and told local reporters they believed the prison guards and the nurse on duty were diligent in their care.

County commissioner and chairman of the county prison board A.J. Munchak, Warden Janine Donate and Dr. Edward Zaloga, the county prison's chief medical director, all praised the staff. "As I said yesterday , medically, medical-wise and security-wise, everything was done properly," Munchak told the Scranton Times-Tribune

The mother has filed a lawsuit alleging violation of her civil rights. The baby is now in foster care.
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[liberalnurse]

1. I really don't believe any of this....

Harry Potter is more believable.

This is fictitious.

[Joanne98]

2. It true. They do stuff like this all the time. I was in LA County jail 4 months

I could tell you stuff that would make your hair stand on end. But why? nobody cares!

[TomInTib]

3. News like this should get out.

But no one who could make a difference gives a shit.

Like you, I have spent a good bit of time incarcerated. The stuff I witnessed was appalling.

People dying in diabetic comas because staff thought they were still intoxicated when it was the diabetic incident that brought them in in the first place. They even took their medical alert bracelets off when they booked them.

[panader0]

4. That happened to a friend of mine's father.

He died in his cell, unattended because guards thought he was drunk. My friend's mother sued the Oakland police and wound up with a bundle.