During her annual pap smear at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California, in 2005, Moonlight Pulido received harrowing news: Doctors had found two potentially cancerous growths in her uterus. “When he said the word cancer, it freaked me out because my son had cancer when he was 12,” she said. In the haze of the shocking news, Pulido agreed to the doctor’s suggestion to remove the growths.