Council Member Narcisse asks how many pregnant women are in custody

As now, how many pregnant women in custody right now do you know in DOC?

So there are five women who are either pregnant or receiving postpartum care, plus one mother and one child in the nursery.

Okay.

So how many of them gave birth actually under welding custody last year?

I'm not familiar with that.

I'll pass it over to Director Augustine to see if he has the information, and if not, we will certainly follow up with an answer.

Okay.

Go ahead.

No, you can answer.

Thank you.

So we don't have that information.

But again, as our ED shared, we can absolutely get it if necessary.

And I will add that the person who is in the nursery right now, I believe, gave birth earlier this year, not last year.

Okay, okay.

And also, I don't know if you're counting stillbirth as well, because we did have, in conversation with the women in the facility, one did divulge to me that she did experience having a stillbirth.

Yeah, and so that, to add to that, when I asked her if she had had access to mental health support, she said she hadn't met with mental health, anyone from a clinician,

mental health professionals since that experience.

Okay.

Thank you.