Special Report: As more women fill America’s jails, medical tragedies mount
Staff Reporter | Dec 16, 2020 08:44 AM EST
Special Report: As more women fill America’s jails, medical tragedies mount (Photo : Deborah Schlarb/Handout via REUTERS)
(Reuters) - By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead.
Swayzer had arrived a week earlier, on July 6, 2016, picked up after a dispute with a hotel clerk and charged with disorderly conduct and a parole violation from an old burglary conviction. She was clearly pregnant, just a few weeks from her due date, and police had her evaluated at a hospital before bringing her to jail. The fetus was deemed active and healthy, and Swayzer cleared for detention.
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