Stories like this make it seem that the UK has flipped 150 years back through a time warp.
A pregnant woman isn’t paid the benefits she is entitled to. Desperate, she steals food worth £13.94. She is caught, and sentenced to 10 months in jail.
The jail she is sent to is privately-run. There she suffered a miscarriage, at which point
she says the foetus was left with her afterwards and that she had to clean up the blood
Her barrister, Philip Gibbs, told Leicester Crown Court: “There was blood everywhere and she was made to clean it up.
“The baby was not removed from the cell. It was quite appalling. It was very traumatic. She only received health care three days later, after the governor intervened.”