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Watch: How a Faulty Hospital Drug Test Can Turn New Parents Into Police Targets

Watch our joint investigation with CBS Sunday Morning, exposing how unreliable drug tests at childbirth lead to parents being referred to law enforcement.

News • 08.09.2026

I Had a High-Risk Pregnancy in Jail — Then I Gave Birth in Chains

When Rebecca Figueroa was arrested two months into her pregnancy, she didn’t worry because she wasn’t guilty. But seven months later, she was still in jail and totally unprepared for a high-risk pregnancy, childbirth in restraints and the constant fear of losing her daughter.

Life Inside • 04.01.2022

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