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Front Cover -- Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- ONE Context and landscape of pregnancy and new motherhood in prison -- Introduction -- Mother and baby unit applications -- Experiences of mothers: the danger of unsupported separations -- Michelle Barnes -- From the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report -- The dangers of an incarcerated pregnancy -- Ms A -- From the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman's report -- Ms B (aka Louise Powell) and baby Brooke-Leigh Powell
From the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman's report -- The authors' underpinning research -- The voices of mothers -- Conclusion -- TWO How we came to be here: 100 years of criminalised motherhood -- Introduction -- 100 years of pregnancy and new motherhood in prison -- 19th- and 20th-century women in prison -- Prison reform and activism in the 19th and 20th centuries -- Present-day reviews and reform -- Evidence from Baldwin and Abbott's research and the contemporary landscape -- Anxiety, stress and shame -- Minoritised pregnant mothers -- Conclusion
THREE The 'journey' to incarcerated motherhood -- Introduction -- The mothers' experiences before criminalisation and/or prison: missed opportunities -- Experiences of being mothered -- Living in a 'circle of circumstance' -- Cycles of trauma -- Motherhood, motivation and desistance -- The criminal justice response to pregnant and new mothers -- Sentencing guidelines -- Progress? -- In practice? -- The mothers' voices: experiences of arrest and sentencing -- Awareness of mother and baby units -- Conclusion -- FOUR Motherhood confined -- Introduction -- Early days in prison
Prison as a safe space? -- Stress and feeling 'unsafe' -- Shame and being a 'pregnant prisoner' -- Antenatal care -- Pregnancy, prison and hospital appointments -- Pregnancy, prison and food -- Miscarriage and births in prison -- Mother and baby units -- The application -- 'Like living in a goldfish bowl' -- Conclusion -- FIVE The persisting pain of incarcerated pregnancy and new motherhood -- Introduction -- Post-prison guilt, stigma and shame -- Layered shame -- Spoiled maternal identity -- Guilt -- Birth and starting life in prison
The multi-layered legacy of prison pregnancy and new motherhood -- 'Inability to move on' and friendship -- Disrupted realities -- Finding resilience -- Support: fear of asking/lack of -- Difficult choices, difficult consequences -- Post-prison trauma -- Vicarious trauma -- Motherhood and desistance -- Conclusion -- SIX Personal experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in prison and the value of the voluntary sector in challenging the system -- Introduction -- The Birth Companions Lived Experience Team -- About Birth Companions -- Our approach to building engagement -- Our services
Understanding and communicating the impact of prison in pregnancy/early motherhood
Includes bibliographical references and index.