'The pain was worse than giving birth': why are so many women separated from their babies in prison?

First they had to give birth in custody, then their babies were taken away. Sometimes they never got them back. Here's what 29 women told the Lost Mothers Project One by one, 29 women sat before Dr Laura Abbott in similarly small, nondescript rooms across five UK prisons, and described losing their babies. They were not bereaved in the conventional sense - although they were clearly holding in grief, as once the guards had left, they let rare public tears fall. Prisoners who had given birth in c...