Overview
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 11, 2020
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Fork Films,Independent Lens,ITVS,Tribeca Film Institute,Chicken & Egg Pictures,Women Make Movies,Idlewild Films,Black Public Media (BPM),Chicken & Egg Films,Black Public Media
- Director
- Erika Cohn
- Producer
- Doree Friedman,Diane Philips,Patty Quillin,Christen Hepuakoamana'a Marquez,Blye Pagon Faust,Mark Lipson,Erika Cohn,Angela Tucker,Sally Jo Fifer,Nicole Docta,Lois Vossen,Geralyn White Dreyfous
- Cinematography
- Clare Major,Bianca Cline
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- View on IMDb