KENTUCKY’S female incarceration rate is more than two times the national average, and is the second-highest in the nation in 2016.
FREe
AMBEr
TUCKER
inmate #215699
Some children you give birth to, I have 3 of those.
Some children become yours and Amber Tucker is my 4th child.
She calls me Momma and I am honored.
I will never leave her side.
I long for the day when I have her under my roof and my protection.
This page and all our effort is for the purpose to
FREE AMBER TUCKER
Right now, there's a tall skinny girl sitting in a prison cell at Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women in Pewee Valley.
She's been incarcerated for over 11 years.
She just turned 29.
Giving Birth While in Shackles
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It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
― Nelson Mandela
Solitary Confinement
"It's an awful thing, solitary," John McCain wrote of his time as a prisoner of war. "It crushes your spirit and weakens you resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment."
The U.S. is one of the leading practitioners of solitary confinement. Evidence suggest that it is both cruel and counterprodutive to inflict this punishment on anyone for long periods of times, especially on young people while their brains are still developing.
"Studies have illustrated that mentally ill inmates and juveniles are two groups more severely affected by solitary confinement than other prisoners. As such, the solitary confinement of mentally ill inmates and juveniles has been upheld as cruel and unusual in both international and US courts."
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The American Medical Association states "that no restraints of any kind shall be used on an immate who is in labor, delivering her baby or recuperating from the deliverary." The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists state, "The use of restraints on pregnant incarcerated women and adolescents may not only compromisehealth care but is demeaning and rarely necessary."