Title: In Reckless Hands
Description: In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America because it was believed that criminality and mental illness were inherited. This is the disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics.
Subjects: Eugenics, History, Involuntary sterilization, Law and legislation, Trials, litigation, Civil rights, united states, Law, united states, cases, Prisoners, biography, United states, social conditions, 1865-1945
Places: Oklahoma, United States
People: Jack T. Skinner (d.1977)