France, an international rights organisation, says no fewer than 82 female Nigerians are currently on death row in various correctional centres across Nigeria.Angela Uzoma-Iwuchukwu, the Country ...

This article was published in partnership with Bloomberg Law. When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby.

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.