An inmate who became pregnant while in a Florida county jail is scheduled to have a hearing on Jan. 24 in which she will request a transfer to house arrest, her attorney said Thursday.
Daisy Link, 28, has been held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County since June 2022. On Christmas Day, she called her family members from jail and told them she was almost four months pregnant, according to her sister, Crystal Barreto.
The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department told NBC News last week that it had confirmed Link’s pregnancy after a thorough medical exam, but declined to comment on who may have impregnated her.
Link is awaiting trial on a charge of second-degree murder. Her attorney, Marlene Montaner, said the charge stemmed from a domestic violence incident during which Link feared for her life. She has been held without bond at the correctional center, which houses both male and female inmates, and she has no trial date set yet.
In a motion filed earlier this week, Montaner cited the “extraordinary circumstances” of the pregnancy and asked the judge to reconsider a previous order denying Link’s pretrial release, and instead allow her to be under home confinement with electronic monitoring.
“She is in fear, and I am in fear for the baby,” Montaner said in a phone interview. “Pregnancy is stressful, but a pregnancy in jail takes a different form, and the stress that she’s having is incredible.”
Montaner added that Link said she has been receiving threats from inmates and from corrections staff, who may fear that they could lose their jobs for allowing a pregnancy to occur in jail.
The circumstances surrounding Link’s pregnancy are unclear. Montaner said conjugal visits are not allowed in Florida and Barreto said that Link does not feel comfortable disclosing details of her pregnancy over the jail’s recorded phone lines.
A spokesman for Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation said last week in an…
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