Tiffany McElroy, now 28, was booked into an Alabama jail in May 2024.
Three days after arriving, she said she felt her water break weeks before she was expected to give birth.
According to the lawsuit, she informed a guard that her water had broken and believed she would be taken to a hospital for treatment.
Instead, the complaint states that another guard who checked on her later that morning accused her of wetting herself and instructed her to return to her cell.
According to the complaint, another inmate eventually assisted McElroy in delivering a baby girl who was not breathing when she was born on the prison floor, as prison guards watched.
Another Alabama woman who claimed she was forced to give birth without any medical help in a jail shower settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county last year.
Pregnancy Justice previously found that Alabama has led other states in prosecuting pregnant women for drug-related charges since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. »