Eugenics in the 21st century: forced sterilization in California prisons

[Winehole23]

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR, now Reveal) reported (https://www.revealnews.org/article/female-inmates-sterilized-in-california-prisons-without-approval/) that between 2006 and 2010, at least 148 pregnant women received tubal ligations shortly after giving birth while incarcerated at two California prisons. The majority of the women were Black and Latina, and staff targeted people deemed likely to be incarcerated again, according to the investigation.

According to Belly of the Beast, state audit and prison records reveal nearly 1,400 sterilizations between 1997 and 2013. In addition to people sterilized during labor, an unknown number of cis women and trans people were sterilized during other abdominal procedures, as in Dillon’s case.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/california-prisons-forced-sterilizations-belly-beast

https://revealnews.org/article/female-inmates-sterilized-in-california-prisons-without-approval/

[Winehole23]

From 1909 to 1979, under the state eugenics laws, California forcibly sterilized about 20,000 people in state institutions who were deemed “unfit to produce”. The program disproportionately targeted the Latino community, women, people with disabilities and impairments – even those who had children out of wedlock. The mean age of victims was 17, and they included children as young as 12.

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^^^

Newsome has a windfall comin' on a regular basis out there now, + a pesky recall...open that checkbook, daddy-O. Share that wealth.

tee, hee.

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Let us proceed...

[Winehole23]

screw off, Dale

you'll enjoy it more and we won't be able to tell the difference

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screw off, Dale

you'll enjoy it more and we won't be able to tell the difference

- "I give up, what turned you sour on me now? Not that I give a damn."

- "Hud" - "Hud"

[Winehole23]

About 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it can pay them at least $15,000 each in reparations.


But after a year of searching, the state has approved just 51 people for payments out of 310 applications. There’s one year left to look before the $4.5 million program shuts down and the challenges remain steep. State officials have denied 103 people, closed three incomplete applications and are processing 153 others — but they say it’s difficult to verify the applications as many records have been lost or destroyed.


Two groups of people are eligible for the money: Those sterilized by the government during the so-called eugenics movement that peaked during the 1930s and a smaller group who were victimized while in state prisons about a decade ago.
“We try to find all the information we can and sometimes we just have to hope that somebody maybe can find more detailed information on their own,” said Lynda Gledhill, executive officer of the California Victims’ Compensation Board that oversees the program. “We’re just sometimes not able to verify what happened.”
https://apnews.com/article/politics-health-california-state-government-prisons-b560ec0a0155d8cc13730310e1073d9d

[Blake]

$15k? That's some serious low balling

[Will Hunting]

Buck v. Bell moment

[boutons_deux]

Eugenics? America The Beautiful

Note that Georgia has been sterilizing immigrant women in the past few years.

[Winehole23]

Buck v. Bell momentnever overturned as far as I know

[Winehole23]

$15k? That's some serious low ballingthe lives of the civilly dead are worth less, sadly

[Will Hunting]

never overturned as far as I know
That’s correct