Perspective: Maryland just banned placing pregnant inmates in solitary confinement. Yes, that was apparently happening.
By Theresa Vargas Theresa Vargas Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities. Email Bio Follow Columnist May 1 at 3:04 PM Angela Grimm was 32 weeks pregnant when she arrived at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women.
She said she couldn’t go to the general dining area to share her meals with other women. She couldn’t participate in classes that were offered at the facility. She couldn’t attend church. If that gives you pause — if that makes you say, “Wait, do we really do that to pregnant women?” — you are not alone.
[‘No relief in sight’: Hundreds of Virginia inmates languish in solitary confinement for years, groups find.] “I don’t wish what I went through on anybody,” she told me. “It’s not the baby’s fault. That’s the way I look at it.”
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