{"id":12718,"date":"2012-02-09T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12718"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:33:07","slug":"woman-awarded-1m-in-lawsuit-after-giving-birth-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12718","title":{"rendered":"Woman Awarded $1M In Lawsuit After Giving Birth In Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &#8212; A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>A jury agreed Friday on nine of 10 counts in <strong>Imka Pope\u2019s<\/strong> civil rights case against King County. <strong>Pope<\/strong> says jail nurses and corrections officers violated her civil rights in 1997 by dismissing her claims that she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>She had been arrested for sleeping on a bench at a Metro bus stop. In the lawsuit she filed in 2007, <strong>Pope<\/strong> said jail health officials locked her in a cell and ignored her for six days. She got help after a guard heard a baby crying.<\/p>\n<p>Her mental illness has delayed the case. It went to trial once previously, but at that time <strong>Pope<\/strong> was involuntarily committed to Harborview Medical Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &#8212; A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state. A jury agreed Friday on nine of 10 counts in Imka Pope\u2019s civil rights case against King County. Pope says jail nurses and corrections officers violated her civil rights in 1997 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}