Kristie Pucket-Williams is the Interim Statewide Campaigns and Advocacy Manager for the ACLU of North Carolina’s Campaign for Smart Justice and is a working scholar in Mass Incarceration. She holds an M.A. in Human Services Counseling: Addiction and Recovery Counseling and is a survivor of domestic violence, drug addiction and long term incarceration who is now an advocate and activist fighting for the rights of all marginalized and disenfranchised people.
The use of solitary confinement for incarcerated pregnant people is an indefensible and cruel practice. Unfortunately, it’s more common than you might think.