Correctional Facility Comfortability: A Case Study
Correctional facility comfortability:
Pregnant women are kept in general population which means they are kept with everyone else unless they are addicted to drugs in some places they are kept in a medical section of the facility. These women are kept separate because they are kept on a methadone program or another type of drug program due to the fact that if they are going “cold turkey” (the abrupt and complete cessation of taking a drug to which one is addicted) they child will die (Franco, 2013).
If you’ve ever been pregnant, you cherish your collection of pillows and your comfortable bedding. You know how nice it is to get the kind of exercise that feels good, the yoga class, the long walks, and the liaison classes for birth. However being
incarcerated is different, you missed out on all the things that should have been done. You do not get to go to the hospital with the child father or a family member but instead you are transported under guard to the nearest hospital. Most women are shackled before, after, and sometimes during active labor, you cannot contact a family member to let them know you are in labor, you have an armed corrections officer (guard) present for every minute of labor, birth, and postpartum at the hospital, then the new mothers go back to jail after holding the baby for a few minutes or hours before CPC come and take the child away (Elson, 2015).
Pregnant women are kept in general population which means they are kept with everyone else unless they are addicted to drugs in some places they are kept in a medical section of the facility. These women are kept separate because they are kept on a methadone program or another type of drug program due to the fact that if they are going “cold turkey” (the abrupt and complete cessation of taking a drug to which one is addicted) they child will die (Franco, 2013).
If you’ve ever been pregnant, you cherish your collection of pillows and your comfortable bedding. You know how nice it is to get the kind of exercise that feels good, the yoga class, the long walks, and the liaison classes for birth. However being
incarcerated is different, you missed out on all the things that should have been done. You do not get to go to the hospital with the child father or a family member but instead you are transported under guard to the nearest hospital. Most women are shackled before, after, and sometimes during active labor, you cannot contact a family member to let them know you are in labor, you have an armed corrections officer (guard) present for every minute of labor, birth, and postpartum at the hospital, then the new mothers go back to jail after holding the baby for a few minutes or hours before CPC come and take the child away (Elson, 2015).