"If certain conditions are in place, and these are conditions that often include marginalized populations in carceral spaces, with little oversight of the authorities, those types of conditions can be ripe for sterilization abuse," said Stern, author of the book"Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America.
Andrea Garcia, 19, from a Mexican family, was sterilized after being admitted into Pacific Colony, a psychiatric institution, for what evaluators called "truancy" and a low IQ test score. At Pacific Colony, sterilization was a precondition for release – another coercive factor, Stern noted. Sometimes people were released back to family members, sent to be helpers in households orcould escape the process, Stern said.
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