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Ohio lawmakers hear bill to require prisons to report pregnancy outcomes to DRC
Summary
Sponsors told the House Government Oversight Committee that House Bill 542 would require municipal, county and state correctional facilities to submit annual reports of pregnancy outcomes to the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections so lawmakers can assess prenatal care and potential patterns of preventable stillbirths or miscarriages.
Sponsors of House Bill 542 told the House Government Oversight Committee on a first hearing that the measure would require municipal, county and state correctional facilities to report the outcomes of pregnancies among incarcerated people to the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (DRC) annually.
Representative Upchurch told the committee the bill’s aim is to see whether correctional facilities are providing adequate prenatal care. He cited published national figures presented in testimony that in 2023 about 700 pregnancies were reported in prisons nationwide and that roughly 6 percent of those pregnancies ended in miscarriage. He also described a January 2024 stillbirth at the Cuyahoga County Correctional Facility in his…
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