The Center for Investigative Reporting has discovered that the California Department of Corrections wrongly sterilized almost 150 women between 2006 and 2010.
CIR reporter Corey G. Johnson obtained a database of contracted medical procedures that showed 148 women who were confirmed to have been given tubal ligations, but the report noted that there may be another 100 or more dating back to the 1990s.
Advocates for female prisoners in the state told Johnson that most of the sterilizations were coerced and inmates thought most likely to be jailed again were targeted?
Johnson also discovered that the procedures were carried with no official sanctions, in spite of a state law that requires individual approval by state medical officials.
The state formally banned the widespread practice of sterilizing repeat offenders and the mentally handicapped in 1979.
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