Belly of the Beast

About Belly of the Beast

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously in…

Erika Cohn's Belly of the Beast is a 2020 documentary film. At 82 minutes long, it arrived in June 2020.

Kelly Dillon, Cynthia Chandler, Corey Johnson, and Courtney Hooks lead the cast. It was produced by Independent Lens.

In the United States it streams on MZ Choice Amazon Channel.