A baby has died after an inmate reportedly gave birth alone in her cell at night in Britain’s largest female prison.
According to the Guardian, the woman gave birth in the early hours of Friday last week. It cites sources as stating that when
prison staff visited the woman’s cell in the morning, the baby was unresponsive.
HMP Bronzefield’s deputy director Vicky Robinson confirmed to the newspaper that a baby had died and it was supporting the mother.
A spokesman for South East Coast Ambulance Service confirmed it had attended the prison at 8.30am last Friday and that one ambulance attended the facility.
A Surrey Police spokesman told HuffPost UK: “We were called to HMP Bronzefield at 9.07am on Friday September 27 following reports of the death of a child.
“The death is currently being treated as unexplained and an investigation is continuing to establish the full circumstances of what happened.”
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