Inside The Belly Of The Beast: Marion County Jail's Dark Secrets

Webin her new documentary, belly of the beast, cohn's reporting takes viewers inside california women's prisons, where women of color have claimed they were. Webfilmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, belly of the beast exposes a pattern of illegal. Weban unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women’s prisons and wage a battle to end reproductive injustice in california prisons.

Belly of the beast is airing on pbs just weeks after news broke that a georgia doctor named mahendra aminsterilized and performed unnecessary. Weberika cohn's documentary is a brutal look at the dark history of forced sterilizations within the california prison system. Belly of the beast is a searing exposé. Webbelly of the beast, a powerful documentary film about the human rights abuses experienced by women at the hands of the criminal justice system, will premiere.