‘Serious failings’ contributed to baby’s death in 12-hour lone prison birth | Prisons and probation

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1. Some of those prison officers need to be on the other side of the bars for a while. The side that doesn’t have a key hole.

2. Jesus, that was difficult to read…

   “Cleary used the intercom in her cell to urgently request a nurse or an ambulance. The call was answered by the prison officer Mark Johnson, who did not call for medical help.”

   “When she called for help a second time, the call was disconnected in the prison communications room.
   A staff member doing a night patrol did not notice anything untoward in the cell, although the following morning it was found covered in blood.”

3. These are the sorts of stories we should be having on the news 24/7 – not Nigel Farage and his elites only, Coutts bank account.

4. >McAllister noted that in many ways “the situation for pregnant women in Bronzefield was symptomatic of a national absence of policies and pathways for pregnant women in custody”.

   Considering there are around 200 pregnant women in prison each year, why isn’t there a national policy?

5. From the [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Bronzefield):

   At least four times in the two years to 2019 women gave birth in upsetting and potentially dangerous conditions: one woman gave birth in her cell and another was left in labour during the night only with support from another pregnant prisoner.

   If only there was some way to predict approximately when women are going to give birth!