An inmate miscarried in a correctional facility, authorities still haven't found the mother.
The incident has raised alarm bells with prisoner advocacy groups who fear women aren't receiving adequate healthcare while in custody.Gloria Larman from the Women's Justice Network.
She said in order to identify whether women are receiving the appropriate healthcare, the federal government must expand its National Deaths in Custody database to include miscarriages and stillbirths."The biggest issue that we find is that when this happens to babies in prison they are not deemed a death in custody, because they say technically they're not in custody - but they are," Kilroy said.
Dillwynia Correctional Centre was at the centre of an unrelated 2019 inquiry into sexual offending by former corrections Officer Wayne Astill. According to a 2022 report published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 164 women received into custody in 2021 were pregnant. A spokesperson for Corrective Services NSW told 9news.com.au the woman who miscarried is yet to be identified, nearly a month on.
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