Sterilization

Between 1929 and 1974, the state of North Carolina conducted a practice of forced sterilization on poor inmates of state run training schools. The 7600 people sterilized in NC were both black and white. The program was "...under-the-radar program and based on the junk science of eugenics". Those sterilized were determined to be "feeble minded" by inaccurate "intelligence tests", or had "premarital sex". An investigation of the program was done by the Winston-Salem Journal. A few years ago the governor and a legislative committee recommended health care and educational benefits for those sterilized but as of this source nothing has been done. "At least one of the training schools made sterilization a condition of release".
(Source: "Help sterilization victims in N.C." by John Railey of the Winston Salem Journal. Op-ed column was in The Virginian Pilot on November 18, 2008).