Prison guards, but not mother, get counselling after baby dies in cell

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/25/prison-guards-but-not-mother-get-counselling-after-baby-dies-in-cell

A vulnerable 18-year-old whose baby died after her calls for help were ignored as she gave birth alone in a prison cell was not provided with bereavement support – but the prison guards who failed to get her medical assistance were offered counselling, the Observer can reveal.

The details were buried in a devastating report from a prison watchdog published last week that described how the teenager was found in bed cradling her dead baby more than 12 hours after pressing her cell bell and telling staff at the privately run HMP Bronzefield that she needed an ambulance.

It has also emerged since the report’s publication that those who ignored her calls for assistance remain working at the prison in Ashford, Surrey.

The young woman, in prison for the first time, was on remand facing a charge of robbery. She went into labour, and records show that on the evening of 26 September 2019 she called for help three times but none came.

[Wingus Dingus]

1. Reading the article--the situation was sixteen ways of effed up.

For once it's not the US.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[marble falls]

3. Amazing how a nice Sunday Morning can get shit hammered in four paragraphs. I'm signing off ...

...for the rest of the day.

[The Magistrate]

4. Nothing On God's Earth Lower Than A Prison Guard

Nothing.

[mopinko]

5. the petty cruelty of it all.....

not to compare myself in any way to this young lady, but i got to spend the day as a guest of cook county recently, and i'm still shaking my head at how vast a structure it takes to inflict such petty cruelties on people convicted of nothing.
every.little.thing. about the place is purposely cruel right down to the soy bologna and grape koolaid.
right down to the fact that 2 of the women were there for fighting back against abusive husbands.

we rly have to do better. they price tag is insane.

[malaise]

6. The system is fucking evil

That is all