A Georgia woman came forward about the lack of medical care she received while giving birth in prison at a Wednesday hearing held by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law.
Jessica Umberger, who now serves as a care navigator for the Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative in Atlanta, said she was serving a five-year prison sentence at the Helms Facility in Atlanta when she gave birth to her daughter, Jordan, in August 2018.
Umberger, however, claims she was told she would not have a say in how she gave birth.
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