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Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.
The women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules during those five years - and there are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s, according to state documents and interviews.
From 1997 to 2010, the state paid doctors $147,460 to perform the procedure, according to a database of contracted medical services for state prisoners. Crystal Nguyen, a former Valley State Prison inmate who worked in the prison's infirmary during 2007, said she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized. The top medical manager at Valley State Prison from 2005 to 2008 characterized the surgeries as providing inmates with the same options as women on the outside.
http://inagist.com/all/353929071165583360/
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Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)DU is running VERY sluggishly today...or is it just me????
Other sites are fine, it seems.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)DU is running fine for me today.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)That seems to be the current argument from some DUers.
"Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010"...
Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected during the 2003 California recall and served out the remainder of Gray Davis's term;
California gubernatorial election, 2006.. Republican Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger won re election for his first full term
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_2006
incumbent Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was ineligible to run for re-election for life. Former Governor Jerry Brown, the winning candidate, took office on January 3, 2011.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_2010
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Privacy is so old-school. This is a new era. Big Brother knows best. Forced sterilization is necessary to protect their freedom.
madmom
(9,681 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Its logical to apply the argument to all privacy cases...unless you are suggesting they are flaming hypocrites.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)whether they are in jail or not.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)And these were unnecessary surgeries while the state is being forced to free prisoners because they can't provide adequate medical care at the prisons.