“In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass a law allowing for the compulsory sterilization of ‘confirmed criminals,’ ‘idiots,’ ‘imbeciles’ and ‘rapists.’ As a result, hundreds of men held in Indiana prisons were given vasectomies. Henry Sharp, the doctor who performed the procedures, argued before the National Prison Association in defense of the practice: … Continue reading Our Long, Troubling History of Sterilizing the Incarcerated