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Todaro v. Ward argued that women within a New York prison did not have adequate, constitutional access to healthcare. Since Todaro v. Ward was the first major court case that called into question incarcerated women's actual access to health care, it spurred organizations such as the American Medical Association, American Correctional Association, and the American Public Health Association to ...
In California, it was found that over 100 women were unlawfully sterilized between the years of 2006 and 2010. [13] Further, it was reported by the Center for Investigative Reporting that medical staffers at two California prisons with pregnant inmates targeted other inmates for sterilization who they thought would likely return to prison.
Sufrin heads the Johns Hopkins initiative, Advocacy and Research on Reproductive Wellness of Incarcerated People. In March 2019, the Pregnancy in Prison Statistics (PIPS) study was released. It examined Federal Bureau of Prisons report data for 12-months between 2016 and 2018 and covered 57 percent of the female prison population. It is the ...
California must remain a leader in reproductive and gender-affirming care while the nation seeks sanctuary for families, patients and providers.
If it were, Mason Herring, a Texas man who tried to induce abortion in his estranged wife by drugging her with abortion pills, would have gotten more than a mere 180 days in prison. This is about ...
Her article, Sterilization and Reproductive Oppression in Prisons, focuses on women prisoned in the state of California who are being illegally sterilized even forty years after sterilization abuse guidelines were put into place at both the federal and state level. Despite the illusion of the end of sterilization monstrosities, in 2006–2010 ...
The results of study conducted in a Rhode Island prison indicated high levels of reproductive health risks (STDs, unplanned pregnancies, etc.), from which researchers concluded that providing reproductive health services to incarcerated women would be beneficial to the women, the community, and the criminal justice system. [88]
Gender-responsive prisons (also known as gender-responsive corrections or gender-responsive programming) are prisons constructed to provide gender-specific care to incarcerated women. Contemporary sex-based prison programs were presented as a solution to the rapidly increasing number of women in the prison industrial complex and the ...