"Who's Gonna Take My Baby?": Narratives of Creating Placement Plans Among Formerly Pregnant Inmates. Issue 6 (2nd November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rodriguez Carey, Rebecca
• Is Part Of: Women & criminal justice. Volume 29:Issue 6(2019)
• Page Start: 385
• Page End: 407
• Publication Date: 2019-11-02
• Subjects: incarceration -- women -- pregnancy -- caregivers -- stigma; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Periodicals; Female offenders -- Periodicals; Women -- Crimes against -- Periodicals; Women criminal justice personnel -- Periodicals; 364.374
• DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2019.1593919
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0897-4454

Abstract

Abstract : Incarcerated pregnant women are nearly immediately separated from their babies after birth, which means they are forced to appoint a caregiver for their babies for the duration of their imprisonment. Little information is known about the caregiving plans of these women. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 35 women who were once pregnant and incarcerated in prisons across the United States, this research explores the ways in which these women construct and account for how they appointed caregivers. The narratives reveal how the women experienced stigma not only for being pregnant outside the societal boundaries that govern pregnancy but also over their placement plans.