On March 27 of 2019 Tammy Jackson was booked into the North Broward Bureau jail. She was put in an isolation cell and that is where she birth to her Daughter on April 10th while she was unattended for seven hours.
www.miamiherald.com/…
Tammy Jackson gives birth
According to the articles the Staff at this facility knew Tammy was at full-term and ready to have a child when she was placed in their care. If you can call it that.
According to Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, who wrote in a letter to Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony:
Finkelstein said two weeks later, just after 3 a.m., she began complaining of contractions and asked for help. Yet, according to Finkelstein, instead of transporting her to a hospital, staff tried reaching an on-call physician. At 7:22 a.m. that morning, Finkelstein said, the doctor said he was on his way. Then at 9 a.m., about an hour before she gave birth, the woman said she was bleeding and still alone in her cell.
Finkelstein also wrote:
“It is unconscionable that any woman, particularly a mentally ill woman, would be abandoned in her cell to deliver her own baby,” the public defender wrote. “Your staff did not protect either Ms. Jackson or her child. Despite their neglect and callous indifference, both Ms. Jackson and her child survived. It remains to be seen how this gross negligence will affect Ms. Jackson’s already fragile mental health.”
Tammy Jackson is still in custody but is in the Hospital recuperating. No word on her Daughter’s condition.
The Washington Post was unable to get a comment from the Sheriff’s office or the jail...no surprise there.
One can only wonder in trump’s america if the people who were in charge on Tammy got a good laugh out of all of this. Would it surprise anyone. What have become….or I suppose, this is who have been for a very long time.
All I can say, and will continue to say is that when my Ballot arrives next year I will only be putting my check marks next to Democrats. I will do so easily and with the hope in my heart that we can continue to make the changes our country so badly needs. We cannot afford anymore setbacks.