Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

An Etowah County woman who claimed she was forced to give birth without any medical help in a jail shower settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county, jail officials and doctors this ...

“I didn’t really comprehend what was going on," the woman recalled of her wild journey to motherhood Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has ...