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California Lawmakers Block Prison Sterilization Epidemic
Loaded on Aug. 10, 2016
by Derek Gilna
California legislators passed a bill in August of 2014 that should put an end to a clear abuse of power by the state's jailers. Female state prisoners in California have been the victim of scores of forced sterilizations by prison medical officials in the past decade. According to the …
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