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In the United States, pregnancy does not shield women from incarceration, nor does incarceration meaningfully adjust itself to the realities of pregnancy. Each year, women enter jails and prisons, already pregnant or discover they are pregnant after being taken into custody, and their pregnancies proceed inside systems structured around security, compliance, and cost containment rather than maternal health. Despite the scale of the issue, pregnancy in correctional settings re

Authored by: Dr. David Z. Simpson Iman Abdallah Hadian walked into Mercy Correctional Facility to bring light, faith, and healing. What he encountered instead was a system that crushed the spirit of those it confines and those asked to serve inside it. His death was not an isolated tragedy, but a warning—one we cannot afford to ignore. A Calling Met with Cruelty Dawn had barely broken when Iman Abdallah Hadian stepped into Mercy Correctional Facility that December morning, no