Teen mother says prison neglected her
Source: By LEE WILLIAMS and ESTEBAN PARRA, The News Journal (DE), 04/09/2006
Kimwayna "Kim" Allen gave birth to twins in a toilet stall at Baylor Women's Correctional Institution last month, after she says a prison nurse employed by Correctional Medical Services ignored her complaints of powerful contractions, which began 24 hours prior to the births. ..... The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division launched a federal investigation into prison health care in Delaware on March 8 -- a probe Correction Commissioner Stanley W. Taylor Jr. and Gov. Ruth Ann Minner opposed and lobbied to stop. Although Minner agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department, the governor told U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that the federal probe was not necessary.