The breakdown:
- A lawsuit filed on Oct. 12 alleges Michigan Department of Corrections officers’ body cameras recorded Natalie Forrest during labor, delivery and postpartum care at an Ann Arbor hospital in March 2025.
- The complaint says male and female officers remained in the room while Forrest was examined, gave birth and breastfed, despite policies requiring cameras to be off in private settings.
- It also alleges an officer threatened Forrest’s mother with added prison time if she photographed the newborn; no photo was taken, and Forrest returned to prison within 48 hours.
- The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and a jury trial.
A lawsuit filed on Monday accuses correctional officers of recording a Michigan inmate while she was giving birth at a hospital in March 2025.
The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 12 by Flood Law on behalf of Natalie Forrest, alleges two officers, one of them a man, stayed in the delivery room through the inmate’s cervical exams, labor and delivery, with chest-mounted cameras facing her bed. The cameras were allegedly not in sleep mode.
Forrest, a former inmate from the Huron Valley women’s prison, was taken to Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital on March 6, 2025, to give birth to her son. According to the lawsuit, she was a minimum-security prisoner serving a sentence for a nonviolent drug offense. She was paroled in December 2025…