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How are the dietary needs of pregnant incarcerated women being met? a scoping review and thematic analysis
(2024-02)
Introduction: The number of incarcerated pregnant women is increasing globally. With many having complex health and social backgrounds, incarceration provides opportunities for health interventions, including the chance ...
Unite for Global Perinatal Care for Incarcerated Mothers
(2023-12-31)
What we are saying is, the types of crime committed occur across a spectrum of criminality and severity are married with appropriate options for incarceration, punishment and/or rehabilitation. If health care for pregnant ...
Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison
(Bristol University Press, 2023-11-30)
Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons. The book delves critically and poignantly into the criminal justice ...
Birth Supporters experiences of attending prisoners being compulsorily separated from their new-born babies
(2023-05-24)
There is growing evidence demonstrating increased mental ill-health in women compulsorily separated from their babies. For imprisoned women, the risk of self-harm and suicide may be further exacerbated. Birth supporters ...
Pregnancy and new motherhood in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Bristol University Press, 2023-03-28)
The prison population of women in England is approximately 3,600 (Ministry of Justice [MoJ], 2021a). Women in prison are reported to have many complex issues which include enduring childhood trauma, disadvantage, homelessness, ...
Experiences of midwifery care in English prisons
(2022-11-12)
Background: In the United Kingdom (UK), all prisoners must receive healthcare equivalent to that available in the community. However, evidence suggests that equality in healthcare provision for perinatal women in UK prisons ...
Compulsory separation of women prisoners from their babies following childbirth: Uncertainty, loss and disenfranchised grief
(2021-12-26)
There is growing evidence to show increased mental ill health in women compulsorily separated from their babies at birth (Cantwell et al., MBRRACE‐UK, 2018:56). For imprisoned women, the risk of self‐harm and suicide may ...
Pregnancy and childbirth in English prisons : institutional ignominy and the pains of imprisonment
(2020-01-10)
With a prison population of approximately 9000 women in England, it is estimated that approximately 600 pregnancies and 100 births occur annually. Despite an extensive literature on the sociology of reproduction, pregnancy ...
Position Statement: Perinatal women in the criminal justice system
(The Royal College of Midwives, 2019-11-12)