Part One: She was homeless, so cops and Child Protective Services took her kids, then imprisoned them on toxic Treasure Island

Part One: She was homeless, so cops and Child Protective Services took her kids, then imprisoned them on toxic Treasure Island

In 1999, San Francisco cops pounded on Liz Washington’s door and burst in with their hands on their guns. “It was like they were going to be in a shoot-out,” said Liz. Flourishing an unreadable paper that she could not identify as a warrant, they snatched her three children, literally grabbing her nursing infant from her arms. This brutal act began the chain of events that ended with the family’s long imprisonment on Treasure Island.