Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

This article was published in partnership with Bloomberg Law. When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby.

I kept thinking, how could there be a whole baby in me and I didn’t know. I’d been working, sleeping, getting my period.