This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project - Cleveland , a nonprofit news team covering Ohio’s criminal justice systems.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced legislation requiring all Ohio jails and prisons to report the outcomes of every pregnancy that ends behind bars.

The proposal comes following a Marshall Project - Cleveland and News 5 investigation that detailed how a Cleveland woman’s pregnancy ended after her repeated cries for help went unanswered for hours in the troubled Cuyahoga County jail in 2024.

That pregnancy loss and the outcomes of other pregnant women in jail aren’t tracked by Ohio. Currently, the state only requires county jails to report in-custody deaths.

But advocates and medical doctors have called the lack of repor

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