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Lansing inmate lawsuit alleges MDOC officers recorded birth in custody

A2D News Desk

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of former inmate Natalie Forrest alleges that male corrections officers stood in a hospital delivery room and recorded her giving birth while in state custody.

Flood Law filed the lawsuit this week, claiming that a male Michigan prison guard stood inside a hospital delivery room and watched as Forrest — undressed, exposed and in state custody — went through cervical exams, labor and the birth of her son, with two officers wearing active body cameras the entire time.

News 10 Lansing has reached out to MDOC for comment on the lawsuit and is awaiting a response, as the case develops.

Read the full story at WILX.

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