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Endgame in my country is that pregnant women cannot be imprisoned for any reason, plus a couple of years post birth; we have cases where they get pregnant again
by AdrianB1 4y ago
Endgame in my country is that pregnant women cannot be imprisoned for any reason, plus a couple of years post birth; we have cases where they get pregnant again and again until the prison sentence ends, so they never spend a day in prison.
It is used sometimes as a "get out of jail card" as a woman that is already in prison can get pregnant to get out.
- scarby2 4y agoIn my country they just have a secure maternity ward with access to specialist care. After birth the child is allowed to live with it's mother inside a specially equipped prison. The child is in no legal sense detained as it is free to be sent to live with anyone else should the mother choose for someone else to raise the child.
- AdrianB1 4y agoYour country has a wiser system than mine.
- olddustytrail 4y agoIn your country (which one btw?) what percentage of women are under sentence but out due to pregnancy/childbirth vs those imprisoned?
- AdrianB1 4y agoRomania. I don't have official statistics, there were some news also mentioning it. I don't think anybody is counting it to avoid public rage. About 10 years ago I read about 2 sisters that had 33 children in total, I don't remember what was the crime, just the county they lived in. Not all the kids were to avoid jail, only a few.
- olddustytrail 4y agoI think no-one is counting it because it's such a tiny number that it's ridiculous to even care about. Read the second paragraph you just wrote and realise how absurd it sounds. You're worried about two women?
- benj111 4y agoSurely if you can't go to prison because you're pregnant, the sentence should pause while you're out of jail, not carry on running? What country is this?
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoProbably some euro shithole (like mine) that also believes you can serve multiple sentences in parallel. I'm going to guess Spain though.
- AdrianB1 4y agoNo, sentences are not served in parallel here, they are merged ("contopite") into a single one that is the longest plus a small extra that makes up for all others. For example 5 sentences of 5 years each are merged into one of ~ 6 years.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoUgh. If you've done 5 crimes each worth 5 years of detention you somehow get less. Abominable.
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- foogazi 4y agoIn my country the whole family lived in prison with the imprisoned parent Kids would leave in the morning, go to school and come back to their shack