Woman wins $975K years after giving birth in jail
SEATTLE (AP) — A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state.
A jury agreed Friday on nine of 10 counts in Imka Pope's civil rights case against King County . Pope says jail nurses and corrections officers violated her civil rights in 1997 by dismissing her claims that she was pregnant.
She had been arrested for sleeping on a bench at...
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