Auntie Angie's House · Albany, Georgia
A bed, a doctor,
and somebody in your corner.
Auntie Angie's House is a transitional maternity home for pregnant women and new mothers in crisis. Angela founded it after giving birth in restraints herself. It does case management, life-skills work, mental-health referrals, help getting to prenatal care, and street outreach — and it has beds.
The house, and what it needs 1:20 · narrated
Narrated in third person by a narrator, over library footage labelled on screen. Nobody in this video is a resident, a referral, or Angela.
Refer someone
For her, or for yourself.
Start →Give
Beds and prenatal care cost money.
How →Volunteer
Hands, hours, and drives.
Sign up →Referral
Refer a woman — or yourself
This builds a referral packet on your own screen. Nothing is transmitted from this page. You print it or download it, then send it to the house yourself. That is on purpose: it means no stranger's server is holding a pregnant woman's crisis while she waits.
If she is a minor, the house has to involve a guardian or a child-welfare professional. That is the law, not a preference, and it changes who can help and how fast.
Yours, not hers, unless she asked you to give hers.
Giving
What money actually buys here
Per the house's own description of its programs: transitional housing, mentorship, mental-health services, and job placement. In practice that is beds, diapers, gas to get to appointments, and the staff hours to sit with someone.
- Give to the house directly. Auntie Angie's House is its own registered nonprofit (EIN 92-2193100), separate from the American King Foundation (EIN 83-1819154). Ask which one your gift should go to — they are different organizations with different books.
- Give things, not just money. Diapers, wipes, formula, car seats, new linens, and gift cards for gas and groceries all get used.
- Give a skill. Prenatal nurses, therapists, lawyers, drivers, and people who can teach a class are worth more than a check.
Why this house exists
Black mothers are dying at three times the rate
Against 14.5 for white women, 12.4 for Hispanic women, and 10.7 for Asian women. More than three times the white rate. Verified · CDC NCHS, Feb 2025 (2023 data)
That gap is the argument. A maternity home is not charity at the edge of the problem — housing, transportation, and somebody who follows up are three of the things that decide whether a woman makes it to her appointments at all.
Federal law
Restraints in federal custody
The First Step Act, signed December 2018, prohibits the Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service from using restraints on pregnant women in federal custody — from confirmation of pregnancy through postpartum recovery — with narrow exceptions where an officer determines restraint is necessary to prevent escape or serious harm. It also requires free menstrual products. Verified · 18 U.S.C. § 4322; CRS R45558
This covers federal prisons and marshals' custody. It does not reach state prisons or county jails — and the large majority of incarcerated women are held in state and county facilities.
State law
Where your state stands
About 40 states have passed some law limiting the use of restraints on pregnant people in law enforcement custody, according to a Johns Hopkins research group led by Carolyn Sufrin, reported by KFF Health News and Stateline. Coverage varies enormously — some laws stop at labor and delivery, others extend through pregnancy, transport, and the postpartum period. Verified · reported research
The same research documents wide non-compliance and loopholes: even where a ban exists, enforcement is largely left to the agencies themselves. Reported by researchers and advocates
Say it out loud
What to ask for, in these words
- "I am pregnant. I am requesting that this be documented in my medical file today, with the date."
- "I am requesting prenatal care and a written schedule of my appointments."
- "Please state the facility's written policy on restraining pregnant women, and give me a copy."
- "I am asking that restraints be removed. I am asking that my refusal and the reason be documented."
- "I am requesting the medical grievance form. Please date-stamp my copy."
- "I am requesting that my emergency contact be notified that I am in labor."
Write down every name, every date, every answer. A dated record is the single most useful thing a family can hand a lawyer or a legislator later.
For the people outside
What family can do from out here
- Call the facility's health services administrator, not just the general line, and log the call.
- Ask for the facility's written pregnancy and restraint policy. Agencies often publish these.
- Contact your state's protection and advocacy organization — every state has one, federally authorized, with the power to investigate conditions for people with disabilities and serious medical needs.
- Call your state legislator's district office. Corrections oversight is one of the few things a single legislator can move fast.
- Keep your own dated record in The Witness Log and let it route you to the offices with legal authority.
For house staff
Resident tracker
The honest limit
What this page cannot do
There is no server here. A referral is not a bed, and building the packet does not put anyone on a waiting list — someone at the house has to read it and call back. Before this page carries real referrals at volume, three things have to be decided: who receives them, where they are stored, and who is on the hook to answer. An intake nobody reads is worse than no intake at all.