[news] Trans Woman Sues State Over Prison Rape

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

A transgender woman who claims she was repeatedly raped and beaten by a male cell mate went to court this week to challenge a state policy that assigns inmates like her to men's or women's prisons depending on whether they have undergone sex-change surgery. Alexis Giraldo, 30, claims that Folsom State Prison guards ignored her complaints of abuse and returned her to the same cell until a subsequent assault got her placed in protective custody and eventually moved to another facility.

  


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