This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, and NPR. Sign up for The Marshall Project’s newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. A federal prison doctor first found the mass on Terri McGuire Mollica’s uterus in 2016. According to a lawsuit, the fibroid was small, and could be removed with a simple, noninvasive surgery.