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The Utah Legislature didn’t fund Utah’s prison nursery. Here’s why.

The Utah Legislature cited oversight concerns after numerous shortcomings in prison health care were detailed in back-to-back audits.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Angie McEaneney, holds a photo of her newborn son Erik, now 6-months-old next to her sister Felicia Schoenberger, who kisses her daughter Attikiss, 1, as they talk about their pregnancy experiences and births while incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility in 2021. McEaneney had a high-risk pregnancy and Schoenberger's daughter had surgery when she was 10-days-old.