A growing number of women who were pregnant while serving time in a Georgia jail are coming forward about being denied medical and mental health care, and the profound consequences that had on them and their babies.
The women’s testimonies are part of an ongoing investigation into the abuse of pregnant women in jails and prisons nationwide led by U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Human Rights.
“This is, in my view, the most extreme civil and human rights crisis unfolding in the United States today,” Ossoff said at a congressional hearing in Atlanta on Wednesday.
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