Summary Juana Villegas was 9 months pregnant and never pictured herself as a mom to be behind bars. She was taken in for a routine traffic violation that is normally taken care of by a simple citation. This violation, of which she was later cleared, was handled by immigration authorized local police and she was locked up in a jail in her state. Taken to the hospital in chains, she went through labor with a sheriff's officer standing guard in her hospital room, where one of her feet was cuffed to the bed most of the time. She talks of her pain after giving birth. View more details
Genres : Family Documentary Short News
Release date : May 13, 2015
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English Spanish
Summary Juana Villegas was 9 months pregnant and never pictured herself as a mom to be behind bars. She was taken in for a routine traffic violation that is normally taken care of by a simple citation. This violation, of which she was later cleared, was handled by immigration authorized local police and she was locked up in a jail in her state. Taken to the hospital in chains, she went through labor with a sheriff's officer standing guard in her hospital room, where one of her feet was cuffed to the bed most of the time. She talks of her pain after giving birth. View more details
Genres : Family Documentary Short News
Release date : May 13, 2015
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English Spanish