California's budget proposal factors in compensation for victims, but it's hard to imagine it ever being enough
In one instance, a woman named Kelli Dillon, who was incarcerated in a California prison, was told by doctors that the abdominal pain she was experiencing could be cancer. She consented to being removed from prison to undergo an operation—which she believed would only be for the purpose of removing any cancer surgeons discovered—but did not agree to being sterilized.
With the help of a legal advocacy group Justice Now, Dillon got a hold of her medical records, which showed she had been sterilized. After this realization, Dillon began noticing other women in the California prison with similar symptoms“At first, I was just in disbelief because it’s been a process, a journey that has been taking place for over 20 years of my life,” she
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