Guadalupe Velazquez has a college degree, owns a flooring company and is pregnant with a baby girl due next month.
Guadalupe Velazquez, who is currently living in a halfway house while serving a marijuana charge and due to have a baby in June, poses at her office in an undated photo, in Tempe, Arizona, U.S. Courtesy of Michelle Velazquez/Handout via REUTERS.
As COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, spreads through the U.S. prison system, Velazquez’s family sees worrisome signs. A nearby halfway house run by the same company has reported a COVID-19 case, and Velazquez’s pregnant roommate was transferred from a Texas prison where another pregnant woman died of COVID-19.
Another nine such women remain in prison. Of those, three who recently gave birth are in a parenting program that houses them with their babies. Concerns about pregnant women’s safety in prisons and halfway houses have intensified since federal inmate Andrea Circle Bear died of COVID-19 last month several weeks after giving birth to her baby while on a ventilator.
“The BOP clearly has the authority to move these women to home confinement,” said Doug Miller, a federal public defender in Maryland.
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