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Apparently $35K is the going rate for the state stealing someone's ability to have a family while keeping them locked up in government-run dungeons, and they won't even pay up that amount.

"In 2021 state lawmakers passed a reparations program to provide $35,000 to each person who was involuntarily sterilized while in state custody...

The board has denied more than 430 of the 549 applications it reviewed, rejecting about 4 in 5 people who sought compensation, according to documents from the board...

California’s shameful history of involuntarily sterilizing people goes back to the early 1900s, when about 20,000 Californians were forcibly sterilized in state-run facilities, mostly mental institutions, from 1909 to 1963 to rid society of people labeled “feeble-minded” or “defectives.” California was such a leader in eugenics that historians say the Nazis sought the state’s advice for their own sterilization program in the 1930s."

https://boltsmag.org/forced-sterilizations-california-prisons/

#Prison #Abolition #Police #ReproductiveJustice