Yeah it’s insane. The doctor, James Heinrich, is retired (dead?) but sounds like a monster and had been sued multiple times for malpractice before the prison hired him. I wish there was a class action against him.

The worst part for me though is that there are women who were involuntarily sterilized there who are not eligible for compensation.

Some people had an endometrial ablation, a procedure where the uterine lining is destroyed to reduce, or sometimes stop, menstrual flow. Those with endometrial ablations don’t qualify for compensation, despite the likelihood of pregnancy after the procedure being incredibly low and the risks of miscarriage or other complications being much higher.

The compensation program also does not include a sizable group of victims of forced sterilizations—the more that 200 women sterilized at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center between 1968 and 1974. These women, many of them Mexican migrants who spoke little to no English, were coerced into consenting to sterilizations while in labor without any information or translated materials describing what the procedure would mean.