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Roberta Bell was fired from her job as a women's correctional officer because she agreed to raise the baby of an incarcerated pregnant woman.
When Katie Bourgeois, an incarcerated person at the Louisiana Transition Center for Women, found out she was pregnant a few months into her sentence, she felt “panicked.” Her due date was in mid-May— around seven weeks before her July release date. Thankfully, corrections officer Roberta Bell jumped in and gave Bourgeois’ newborn a home. And… Continue reading Corrections Officer Has No Regrets After Being Fired For Taking Care Of Incarcerated Person’s Newborn Baby
"It was the right thing to do."
Roberta Bell dismissed after offering to take in Katie Bourgeois’s baby for two months while she finished her prison term
Former prison guard Roberta Bell defied the rules by taking in an inmate's newborn baby, leading to her termination, but she says she has no regrets as she believed it was the right thing to do