Critics condemn government’s failure to end practice despite tragedies in Kent and Cheshire prisons
Experts have warned that more babies could die in prison due to the government’s expansion of female prison places and ministers’ refusal to grant multiple requests to end the incarceration of pregnant women.
The warning comes after an investigation report published by the Prisons & Probation Ombudsman on Wednesday, revealed in chilling detail how in September 2019 an 18-year-old prisoner at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Kent, was forced to deliver her baby alone in her cell. The baby did not survive.
