Butterfly McQueen made her acting debut as ‘Prissy’ the flighty maid of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. Her most memorable line was “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies!” Butterfly would not make it as a correctional nurse where 6-10% of female inmates arrive pregnant and labor and delivery are high-risk and unpredictable. The Prison Journal recounts legal…
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Sue Smith and Jane Grametbaur join Lorry to talk about news items involving pregnancy care in a correctional setting. The first news headline reads: Premature Birth in TX Jail. Dawson State Jail is a 2000 inmate facility in Dallas Texas. Most of the inmates are female. A premature birth took place in one of the cells. The inmate’s family say…
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Inmate Barto is suing the medical director and nurses at your jail facility for not treating his leg ulcer that later developed osteomyelitis after release. He is charging deliberate indifference to his condition. While being confined to the jail for 10 days he did not mention the leg ulcer to any medical staff and left the facility before the required…
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