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Anjoure Teele was pregnant in January 2011 when she was booked into the Gwinnett County jail for armed robbery. One month later, she had a miscarriage in the back seat of a Sheriff’s patrol car en route to the hospital, with her wrists handcuffed and shackled to her waist.

Teele’s fetus, 18 weeks in gestation, was pronounced dead on arrival at Emory Eastside Hospital in Snellville.

Now Teele, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence in state prison, is in the midst of a wrongful death lawsuit filed in 2011 against the Gwinnett County jail’s medical provider, Corizon Health, which has had similar claims of malpractice made against it in jails and prisons all over the country. Several other parties also are named in the suit, including Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway, his department, two other health care providers along with individuals at the jail.

The lawsuit says that neglect from a series of those individuals — mainly deputies and Corizon medical employees — led to Teele’s body expelling the fetus as the cruiser driven by Deputy Thomas Maloy pulled into the hospital parking lot.

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