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1 results foundAuthor: California State Auditor, Bureau of State Audits Title: Sterilization of Female Inmates: Some Inmates Were Sterilized Unlawfully, and Safeguards Designed to Limit Occurrences of the Procedure Failed Summary: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Corrections) oversees the inmate population of the State's 33 adult prisons. During our eight-year audit period-which we defined as fiscal years 2005-06 through 2012-13-four of these prisons housed substantially all of the female inmates: California Institution for Women, Central California Women's Facility, Folsom Women's Facility, and Valley State Prison for Women (Valley). Valley no longer houses women since its conversion to a men's prison in January 2013. For much of our audit period, Corrections' role in providing inmates with medical care was not significant; the more substantial role was played by California Correctional Health Care Services (Receiver's Office) under the direction of a federal court-appointed receiver. A receiver took control of prison medical care in 2006 and will retain control until the court finds that Corrections can maintain a constitutionally adequate prison medical care system. From fiscal years 2005-06 through 2012-13, 144 female inmates were sterilized by a procedure known as a bilateral tubal ligation. The last of these female inmate sterilizations occurred in 2011. Although various surgical procedures may result in a female's sterilization, bilateral tubal ligations are generally surgical procedures that are performed for the sole purpose of sterilization, and state regulations impose certain requirements that must be met before such a procedure is performed. However, the state entities responsible for providing medical care to these inmates- Corrections1 and the Receiver's Office-sometimes failed to ensure that inmates' consent for sterilization was lawfully obtained. Audit Highlights . . . Our audit of female inmate sterilizations occurring over an eight-year period revealed the following: - 144 female inmates were sterilized through a surgery known as bilateral tubal ligation. - 39 inmates were sterilized following deficiencies in the informed consent process. - We saw no evidence that the inmate's physician signed the required consent form in 27 cases. - In 18 cases, we noted potential violations of the required waiting period between when the inmate consented to the procedure and when the sterilization procedure actually took place. - Among these 39 inmates there were six cases where we noted violations of both consent form and waiting period. - Neither the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation nor the California Correctional Health Care Services ensured that the informed consent requirements were followed in 19 instances in which their employees obtained inmates' consent. Details: Sacramento: California State Auditor, 2014. 49p. Source: Internet Resource: Report 2013-120: Accessed September 28, 2016 at: https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-120.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-120.pdf Shelf Number: 140484 Keywords: Female InmatesFemale PrisonersPrison Health CareSterilization |