Pregnant women in prison in England are likely to be diagnosed three times with diabetes from pregnancy from those abroad, according to new data “warning of danger”.
The numbers obtained through the freedom of information (FOI) found NHS boxes that provide health care for women’s prisons in England 12 % of women who receive pregnancy -related care in 2023 with this condition, three times the national number of 4 %.
Diabetes develops pregnancy when the body cannot produce enough insulin to meet the additional needs of pregnancy. This can lead to complications of pregnancy and can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes later in life.
“These numbers were” worrying but not surprising. “
She said, “We have known for many years that premature birth is more common among pregnant women who are imprisoned, and this also highlights the severe health risks they face.” “Pregnancy diabetes increases the risk of high blood pressure and expansion of its range, and the dangerous conditions that require early detection, good nutrition and microbial management, which is very difficult in the prison environment. It can also increase the risk of salvation.”
There were 215 pregnant women in England between April 2023 and March 2024, according to L. The published numbers By the Ministry of Justice. There were 52 births during the reservation, and 98 % of them occurred in the hospital.
NHS and MBBUDSMAN classification in prison all cases of pregnancy in prison as a great risk. Pregnant women are likely to have seven times more than seven times, and twice the most likely to enter the premature work, according to data from the FOI requests in 2022. In 2019, modern born Aisha Clairi died at HMP Bronzefield after she left her mother, who was in prison in reserve imprisonment, to give birth alone in her cell. Louise Powell, who gave birth to a dead child in a toilet in HMP & Yoi Styal in 2020 after emergency calls were not answered, Guardian Last year: “No woman should give birth behind bars.”
Amelia, who asked not to be identified, was pregnant at the age of 16 when she entered prison and was later diagnosed by prison midwife with diabetes. NHS recommended a specific meals plan to help manage this case, but Amelia said that the prison refused to implement it, and refused its supplements and additional medical prescriptions. She said that she gave moldy fruits: “I remember that I gave the berries that contain the blue fur on them, and when I complained to the officer, I was told that it is the privilege of getting any fruits.”
Despite the additional risks associated with pregnancy, Amelia erred the domain dates and developed high blood pressure and sciatica during her pregnancy. She said: “I had previously been aborted and this was my miracle campaign. I was terrified that I would lose another child.”
Amelia’s penalty was reversed during her pregnancy, and a week after her release, she entered into labor prematurely, and she has a C division in emergency situations, which is what they attribute to higher stress and poor health caused by the prison environment. “I am a very strong person, but I am mentally scars from the experience that I was holding in prison. I still wake up in a sweat with a night horror, and I rarely get out of my home now. The prison is very unhealthy – not only for mothers, but the child too.
In April of last year, the ruling council presented the pregnancy as a diluted agent for the judges when the ruling was issued. When the independent referee review published its initial results last week, the newly appointed Women’s Justice Council begins to work Reducing the number of women sent to prisonThe calls are increasing to end the prison of pregnant women.
“The prison is not a place for pregnant women. There are better and safer alternatives, such as the issuance of societal rulings, whose priorities must be determined wherever possible,” says Claire Livingstone, Vocational Policy Adviser at the Royal College of Midwors. “RCM believes that the ruling on pregnant women needs radical reform. We believe that every aspect of the criminal justice system should be compatible with mothers and infants together, wherever possible, in the interest of the child.”
Jani Starling, co -manager Higher levelA group of feminist campaign said: “The prison will not be a safe place for pregnant women.
A government spokesman said: “This account is deeply related to. It is an example of the reason for the reference of the Lord’s Women’s Justice Council to launch so that a number of women end in prison, especially those pregnant or mothers,” a government spokesman said.
“We have specialized and pregnant women, mother and infants communication officers in every women’s prison, and NHS England now treats all cases of pregnancy in the prison as a highly clinical risk.”