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Inside America's two female prisons: where women give birth handcuffed to their bed

India TV News Desk [Published on:26 Sep 2013, 2:37 PM]









Cindy White who was jailed since she was a teenager narrated one of the most horrific tales. Cindy had become one of the youngest prisoners in the Indiana jail 38 years ago after she had killed six people she was living with and set the house on fire.

Cindy has spent the majority part of her life inside the prison.

She never had a bank account, never had a relationship or got married.

During her interaction with Trevor, she told she had been abused and started the fire as a cry for help. 'I knew that people were there, what I was thinking was, if I set a fire, then everybody can get out and I can run. That was my intention. The fire got out of hand,' she said.

Spending almost four decades in there, Cindy has created a new family and a new world for herself inside the walls of Indiana jail.

Cindy has started believing with time that she will spend all her life inside the jail after she was denied conditional release multiple times.

'I figure, if they haven't let me go in 37 years that I have tried to go, they're never going to let me go,' she said. 'So I have to make do with what with I have and make the best of it', she said.

Another prisoner Linda Derby, who was serving her term inside the prison for killing her second husband, somehow managed to flee the prison in 1972 and started living a normal life.

She managed to evade the police for 30 years. But one day while she was sitting on her kitchen window, local policemen approached her with her old photo. She had seen this coming and gave up.

She admitted that it was her. She told Trevor that "Joe, what's the sense in me lying? I could sit here and lie all day to you, but fingerprints don't lie".
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