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TN: Pregnant Woman Is Jailed Under ICE Pact

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

July 20, 2008 Immigrant, Pregnant, Is Jailed Under Pact By JULIA PRESTON It started when Juana Villegas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was nine months pregnant, was pulled over by a police officer in a Nashville suburb for a routine traffic violation. By the time Mrs. Villegas was released from the county jail six days later, she had gone through labor with a sheriff?s officer standing guard in her hospital room, where one of her feet was cuffed to the bed most of the time. County officers barred her from seeing or speaking with her husband. After she was discharged from the hospital, Mrs. Villegas was separated from her nursing infant for two days and barred from taking a breast pump into the jail, her lawyer and a doctor familiar with the case said...continue to full post

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