The Marshall Project and News 5 Cleveland investigate the lack of adequate healthcare for pregnant women in Ohio jails. There are no reporting standards for miscarriages or stillbirths in jail. A Democratic lawmaker wants to change that.
When a woman in the Cuyahoga County Jail lost a pregnancy before 20 weeks, it was ruled a stillbirth, but one jail official said it didn’t need to be reported because “the fetus the inmate was carrying was not incarcerated.”
Guests:
- Mark Puente, staff writer with The Marshall Project-Cleveland
- Scott Noll, investigative reporter with News 5 Cleveland
- Rep. Terrence Upchurch, (D-Cleveland) representing District 20.
- Dr. Carolyn Sufrin, associate professor, department of gynecology and obstetrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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