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Services improve for pregnant inmates
By South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Published: 06/16/2008

FLORIDA - When pregnant inmates are locked up in local jails, they are forced into a one-size-fits-all world designed mostly for men, jail officials and criminal justice experts say.

[Officers] keep them in restraints during labor and sometimes delivery. Social workers take the newborns away to relatives or foster care. Administrators prohibit young children from visiting their mothers behind bars, hurting family ties. Read more.

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