![]() ![]() Presently, pregnant women can even be sent to prison for being on drugs at any point during their pregnancies, rather than getting them the help they need. ![]() When Marsha Colbey was arrested, five women on Alabama’s death row were condemned for the unexplained deaths of infants and other people in their families, or spouses. The number of women incarcerated increased 646 percent between 19 two-thirds were imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses. Lobbying money was spent to create new crime categories and stoke the fear that increased incarceration. The prison-industrial complex made imprisonment profitable. Marsha soon found herself charged with capital murder and was taken to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.Ī new prison opened in the U.S. ![]() A nosey neighbor involved the police to investigate the absent infant. Stevenson discusses Marsha Colbey, a forty-three-year-old white woman from rural Alabama who gave birth to a stillborn son one day in the bath. ![]()
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