Advocates and incarcerated survivors wonder if enough is being done to inform and assist all survivors in California, who have until the end of the year to apply for compensation.
Continuing the state’s leadership to redress historical injustices, Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced the launch of California’s new program to compensate survivors of state-sponsored sterilization, created as part of the
By Tanu Henry, California Black Media People who the State of California had a hand in forcing or coercing to undergo vasectomies or get their tubes tied are now eligible for compensation. The payments will come from a $7.5 million state fund. Some of those victims, both men and women, were sterilized without their consent […]| By Tanu Henry, California Black Media People who the State of California had a hand in forcing or coercing to undergo vasectomies or get their tubes tied are now eligible for compensation. The payments will come from a $7.5 million state fund. Some of those victims, both men and women, were sterilized without their consent […]