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Pregnant Women in Jails

Gulnar Virk Krishna posed this question to me. "Even in non-pandemic times, expecting mothers are not treated well behind bars. Yet ’Pregnancy is Not Grounds for Bail’ during CPVID times also?"

Thank you @Gulnar because it made me realise that there is so much that we can do for our society.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Dostoevsky

There is no crime in anyone's blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born. They are made by hunger, want and injustice.

Khuswant Singh

Men and women are not the same. Even if both have been incarcerated for the same crime, if the woman is pregnant then the punishment is also being inflicted on her unborn child. In normal times its bad enough, but when it comes to Coronavirus times, should we allow any child to go through the risk, through no fault of the child? Prison systems historically have been built keeping in mind the male prisoners, which is why they are not equipped to cater to the needs of women inmates. The women in the criminal justice system are among the most vulnerable in our society in normal times. Pregnancies among incarcerated women are often unplanned and high-risk and are compromised by a lack of prenatal care, poor nutrition, violence, mental illness, etc. Article 21 provides us with fundamental right to life, a life with dignity. As per the most recent data available from the report Women in Prisons published by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, there are 4,19,623 persons in jails in India. Women constitute 4.3% of this figure, numbering a total of 17,834 women. These are the official figures. Of these, 66.8% (11,916) are under-trial prisoners. There is a lack of female staff in prisons in the country.

Our government’s COVID policy specifically identifies senior citizens, the co-morbid, pregnant, lactating women as high-risk populations.

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