© The Independent, UKIn total, 39 women were surgically sterilised without giving legal consent between 2006 and 2011.
Four Californian prisons have been accused of carrying out illegal sterilisations on nearly forty female inmates, a new report has revealed.
The report released by the Californian State Auditor on Thursday, found that between 2005 and 2011, 39 female prisoners had been surgically sterilised without the correct consent procedures taking place.
Folsom Women's Facility, Central California Women's Facility, Valley State Prison for Women and the California Institution for Women were all identified by auditors as the prisons where these illegal procedures had been carried out .
Of the 144 inmates that underwent the "tubal litigations" over the six-year period, nearly a third had occurred without legal consent.
Californian state law states that sterilisation procedures can only take place between 30 and 180 days from the time a woman agrees to the procedure, "to provide the patient with enough time to reflect on her choice and to make sure she desires sterilization."
Nevertheless, in 18 cases auditors had found serious violations of this waiting period.
In another 27 cases, it was found that there had been instances of malpractice by prison doctors.
Some cases saw medical procedures taking place without the correct documentation being signed by prison doctors, while other cases saw doctors falsify documents by saying the proper waiting period had been adhered to when it had clearly not.
Comment: We'd like to see more action like this around the world, but until the masses really understand the nature of psychopathy and the way it infects every aspect of our governments, religions and corporate structures very little will actually change.