Other inmates warned Hicks that the prison would force her delivery through an induction of labor, a procedure typically reserved for medical necessities, none of which applied to her, she said. She ...

A lawsuit says a pregnant inmate was forced into labor at Logan. The case challenges Illinois' reproductive-rights law.

A bill seeking to end the practice has languished without a hearing. Bill sponsor Athena Salman is not giving up, and neither are pregnant people in custody. Women imprisoned at Perryville State ...