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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower

Pregnant woman standing behind frosty glassHeavily pregnant woman half standing blocked behind frosty glass with her bump protruding

In March 2021, sheriffs in Etowah county, Alabama, arrested Ashley Caswell on accusations that she’d tested positive for methamphetamine while pregnant and was “endangering” her fetus.

Caswell, who was two months pregnant at the time, became one of a growing number of women imprisoned in the county in the name of protecting their “unborn children”.

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