Harry Clay Sharp
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Render every male sterile who passes its portals, whether it be an almshouse, insane asylum, institute for the feeble minded, reformatory or prison.
Harry Clay Sharp Begins Illegal Casteration and Vasectomies on Prisoners
Holding the common belief of eugenics that anyone in prison is bad Sharp begins in 1899 using vasectomy on inmates (prior to this he was castrating them). This was an illegal practice prior to 1907 when Indiana became the first state to pass a law of compulsory sterilization.