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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Pregnant in Prison

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How should we be treating imprisoned pregnant women? Perhaps we could start by not shackling them to the hospital bed during labor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Bridget.

0:06.8

And this is Emily.

0:07.8

And you're listening to Stuff Mom Never Told You.

0:12.0

Now, today's topic is a heavy one just to warn you.

0:24.3

It's not something that is a ton of fun, but it's actually really, really important.

0:28.9

Today we're going to be talking about women in prison, how they are treated when they

0:32.7

are pregnant, and what it looks like when they go into labor behind bars.

0:36.4

And if you're looking for a podcast episode of ours to run to or to have a very intensive

0:41.5

workout to, this one will get your heart rate up, no matter whether or not you're engaged

0:46.5

in cardio activities.

0:47.5

So y'all are about to be pissed because the topic is a tough one.

0:51.5

And raging definitely.

0:53.0

So I first sort of got interested in this topic, like most things because of a trumpler.

0:58.9

So beep, beep, trumpler.

1:01.1

You may have remembered a couple weeks ago, Donald Trump pardoned this terrible awful

1:05.7

sheriff in Arizona, sheriff Joe Arpio, who is known for a laundry list of really, really

1:11.5

awful and cruel and dehumanizing acts.

1:14.0

But one of those acts is forcing a woman to give birth in one of his prisons while shackled

1:19.8

to her bed.

1:21.2

And she actually filed a lawsuit.

1:23.7

She ended up losing her lawsuit.

1:25.5

But the lawsuit did find that she was inappropriately shackled during childbirth, which you're not supposed

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