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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Louisiana prison guard loses job for taking in inmate’s newborn baby

According to a 2017 study by the Pregnancy in Prison Statistics Project, about 58,000 expectant mothers are incarcerated each year.
According to a 2017 study by the Pregnancy in Prison Statistics Project, about 58,000 expectant mothers are incarcerated each year. Photograph: Mint Images/Getty Images/Mint Images RF

A Louisiana prison guard has reportedly lost her job for taking in an incarcerated woman’s newborn baby for about two months while the mother finished her prison term.

The prison guard, Roberta Bell, offered to take in Katie Bourgeois’s newborn earlier this year, violating the rules against giving personal contact information to inmates at Louisiana’s Transition Center for Women, which holds people who are close to finishing their sentences.

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