Independent Lens: Belly of the Beast

  • Release year: 2020
When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations—nearly forty years after being banned—in women’s prisons, shielded by prison officials and doctors, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.read more

When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations—nearly forty years after being banned—in women’s prisons, shielded by prison officials and doctors, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. Belly of the Beast exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons, through intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people.

Original Release

11/23/2020

US Release

11/23/2020

Directors

Erika Cohn

Producers

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