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Art's subtle superpower Minali Aggarwal In 2008, Kelli Dillon was sterilized in a California state prison without her consent. She was only 24 years old and had just arrived in prison with a 15-year sentence after defending herself and her two young children against her abusive husband. Though she knew her situation was unjust, she was determined to get through her sentence and get a second chance at love, romance and motherhood. But when she was sterilized without her knowledge, the dream of a second chance at being a mother was stripped away from her just as quickly as the first. Shortly af...
California reparations for forced sterilizations include prisoners By Judy Greenspan posted on July 21, 2021 Bay Area Rally for better health care for prisoners. Oakland, Calif. It’s not often that incarcerated people win victories under capitalism. Incarcerated women, and transgender and gender-nonconforming people did just that. When California’s Governor Gavin Newsom approved the new state budget July 12, it included reparations for people who were forcibly or involuntarily sterilized between 1909 and 1979. The language in the bill specifically included incarcerated people in women...
For Decades, California Forcibly Sterilized Women Under Eugenics Law. Now, The State Will Pay Survivors Tuesday, July 20, 2021 | Sacramento, CA Stacy Cordova, whose aunt was a victim of California’s forced sterilization program that began in 1909, holds a framed photo of her aunt Mary Franco, Monday, July 5, 2021, in Azusa, Calif. Franco was sterilized when she was 13 in 1934. Jae C. Hong / AP Photo Kelli Dillon still remembers all of the emotions she felt when she realized she had been forcibly sterilized by the state of California. “I was a...
A survivor of forced sterilization in a California prison said there's more work to be done to prevent eugenics from happening again INSIDER 5 hrs ago salarshani@businessinsider.com (Sarah Al-Arshani) © Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Protestors at the County USC Medical Center circa 1974 in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Between 1909 to 1979, 20,000 people were sterilized as part of California's eugenics program. Nearly 150 female inmates were forcibly sterilized in the early 2000s. California will now pay reparations to those who were st...