Inmate gives birth without medical assistance at Florida jail

A woman who was in an individual cell of a prison in South Florida gave birth alone and without being monitored by anyone during the work, local media reported.

Tammy Jackson, who according to the chain Local10 suffers from bipolarity and schizophrenia, gave birth to a baby on April 10 in North Broward Prison Office, located in Pompano Beachin Broward County without being taken to a hospital or under the care of physicians working with the center.

"What happened to Ms. Jackson?" It's scandalous and inhuman "Howard Finkelstein, county public defender, in a letter to local sheriff Gregory Tony, in which he lamented that the woman "was forced to give birth to her baby."

According to the information provided by the Public Defender, Jackson's work, held against him by violation of private property and possession of drugs, they started at dawn that day and at 3:30 local time, employees left a message to a health service provider instead of transporting it to the hospital.

"Six hours and 54 minutes after asking for help, members of the Broward Sheriff's Office informed the medical staff that Mrs. Jackson was holding her baby newborn in his arms, having given birth without drugs or badistance, "lamented the defender in his letter sent Friday.

Finkelstein said that the pregnancy of the woman was at termthe staff were warned of his condition and even then his condition "was not only cruelly ignored, but his son's life was also seriously threatened".

The defender asked immediate examination of "medical practices" and the current isolation in all detention centers "of the county, neighboring Miami-Dade, in order to" ensure that no mother will undergo Ms. Jackson's survival test ".