article_snippet: Tennessee prosecutors have made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations so many times in the past five years that a forced sterilization'
  Assistant district attorney has banned a forced sterilization'
  Assistant district attorney staff from offering that as an option.
article_snippet: Nashville prosecutors have made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations at least four times in the past five years, leading Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk Glenn Funk to ban the office from offering that option .
article_snippet: Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk said: 'I have let the office know that that is not an appropriate condition of a plea. 'that is not an appropriate condition of a plea is now policy that sterilization will never be a condition of deal-making in the office. '
article_snippet: When Holmgren insisted Randers undergo sterilization to avoid prison, Harcombe complained.
article_snippet: The prosecutor said The prosecutor wouldn't go forward with a plea deal unless The prosecutor was sterilized .
article_snippet: Harcombe said Holmgrenpreviously asked that another client agree to be sterilized in order to get a plea deal.
article_snippet: Nashville defense attorney Carrie Searcy said Holmgren asked that two of Nashville defense attorney Carrie Searcy clients who gave birth to children who tested positive for drugs undergo sterilization.
article_snippet: Assistant public defender Joan Lawson said Assistant public defender Joan Lawson also had been involved in cases in which a prosecutor had put sterilization on the table.
article_snippet: Assistant public defender Joan Lawson said Assistant public defender Joan Lawson refused the idea and resolved Assistant public defender Joan Lawson cases without sterilization.