Prison Sterilization Report Prompts Call For Inquiry In California Allegations that 148 female prisoners underwent tubal ligation surgeries without the state's required approval emerged in the past week. Some inmates said they were pressured into undergoing the sterilization procedure.
July 11, 2013 - NPR
Report: California forcibly sterilized female prison inmates By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com Female inmates at California prisons were coerced into undergoing tubal ligation -- sterilization -- without proper approval from 2006 to 2010.
July 8, 2013 - UPI