Add to ORKGRecently, accounts of forced hysterectomies at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, have sparked widespread alarm and condemnation. Dawn Wooten, a nurse who worked at the privately-operated Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility — stepped forward as a whistleblower on behalf of several women, describing a pattern of people receiving hysterectomies without their consent during their time in detention.While these accounts of forced sterilization in U.S. immigration detention shock the conscience, they are just the latest example of a long history of the U.S. governments', and the medical establishment's, mistreatment of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPoC)
The U.S. government runs the largest immigrant detention system in the world. A far cry from America...
Jennifer Gunter The Situation in Aiken: Race, Class, and Sterilization This paper examines a series ...
In September 2020, a whistleblower complaint was filed alleging that hysterectomies are being perfor...
Introduction Pauline Binam arrived in the United States from Cameroon as a toddler, with no notion o...
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) detained Jane Doe #15, an immigra...
Abstract This article addresses the reports of immigrant Latin American women being forcibly s...
Voluntary sterilization is one of the most widely used forms of contraception by women worldwide; ho...
Women of color have long suffered targeted and systematic racial discrimination and attempts to cont...
Immigrants detained at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia have, for years, suffered...
A 2013 investigative report on California prisons exposed the recent use of coercive tactics to indu...
The reproductive rights of North Carolinians, African American women in particular, have been severe...
Loretta Ross, also referred to as the founding mother of reproductive justice, once said “Our abilit...
This Article describes the legal history of how, twenty years after the sterilizations began, the U....
The context in which the sterilization of incarcerated women takes place is a deeply coercive one. T...
The ICE detention story reflects a long pattern in the United States of the coerced sterilization of...
The U.S. government runs the largest immigrant detention system in the world. A far cry from America...
Jennifer Gunter The Situation in Aiken: Race, Class, and Sterilization This paper examines a series ...
In September 2020, a whistleblower complaint was filed alleging that hysterectomies are being perfor...
Introduction Pauline Binam arrived in the United States from Cameroon as a toddler, with no notion o...
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) detained Jane Doe #15, an immigra...
Abstract This article addresses the reports of immigrant Latin American women being forcibly s...
Voluntary sterilization is one of the most widely used forms of contraception by women worldwide; ho...
Women of color have long suffered targeted and systematic racial discrimination and attempts to cont...
Immigrants detained at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia have, for years, suffered...
A 2013 investigative report on California prisons exposed the recent use of coercive tactics to indu...
The reproductive rights of North Carolinians, African American women in particular, have been severe...
Loretta Ross, also referred to as the founding mother of reproductive justice, once said “Our abilit...
This Article describes the legal history of how, twenty years after the sterilizations began, the U....
The context in which the sterilization of incarcerated women takes place is a deeply coercive one. T...
The ICE detention story reflects a long pattern in the United States of the coerced sterilization of...
The U.S. government runs the largest immigrant detention system in the world. A far cry from America...
Jennifer Gunter The Situation in Aiken: Race, Class, and Sterilization This paper examines a series ...
In September 2020, a whistleblower complaint was filed alleging that hysterectomies are being perfor...