 However, the latter finding may simply speak to the low level of medical care available to women in poverty in the free world.A 1996 study conducted by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) on women in California, Connecticut, and Florida state prisons found a lack of adequate prenatal and postnatal medical care, prenatal nutrition, level of methadone maintenance for opiate-dependent pregnant inmates, education regarding childbirth and parenting, and preparation for the mother's separation from her child.Often, inmates report receiving no regular pelvic exams or sonograms, and little to no information about proper prenatal care and nutrition.