Fake News: Black Female Prisoners Are NOT Sterilized To Cut Welfare Costs In California
Fact Check
Are African-American women inmates in Caifornia prisons sterilized to cut welfare costs in California? No, that's not true: The claim is a distortion of an investigative report that documented how some doctors at two state prisons bypassed approval procedures to perform sterilizations on 148 women -- including White, Asian, Hispanic and Black -- between 2006 and 2010. Surgeons failed to…