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A survivor of forced sterilization in a California prison said there s more work to be done to prevent eugenics from happening again INSIDER 5 hrs ago salarshani@businessinsider.com (Sarah Al-Arshani) © Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Protestors at the County USC Medical Center circa 1974 in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Between 1909 to 1979, 20,000 people were sterilized as part of California s eugenics program. Nearly 150 female inmates were forcibly sterilized in the early 2000s. California will now pay reparations to those who were sterilized in prison. California passed a $7.5 million fund for reparations of those forcibly sterilized in the state both under old eugenics laws from 1909 and 1979 and more recently in prisons, Reuters reported.

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