Here's a solution, how about keeping your sorry ass out of prison in the first place, as opposed to suing the government for damages. If they had put this clown in with the ladies, they'd be suing for that. What a freaking zoo. Hormones in prison, not exactly news, unfortunately.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Alexis Giraldo was born as a man but lives life as a woman. She takes hormones to feminize her appearance, a fact she says prison officials didn't care about even as her male cellmate repeatedly raped and beat her.
Now free on parole, Giraldo is suing the state prison system and several guards over the state's policy of assigning transgender inmates to men's or women's prisons depending on whether they have had a sex change.
"Prisons are violent places, and male prisons are especially violent places," said Greg Walston, a lawyer who took Giraldo's case for free and asked a jury this week for unspecified damages. "You take that boiling cauldron and you put one woman in there - which is exactly what happened here - and it's like throwing a fresh piece of meat into a lion's cage."
Giraldo, 30, claims Folsom State Prison guards ignored her complaints and returned her to the same cell until she was assaulted again, then placed in protective custody and moved to another facility.
Giraldo is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for emotional distress and violating her constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. She has asked Superior Court Judge Ellen Chaitin to order prison officials to come up with a new system for housing transgender inmates.
They should tell "her' to grow a pair.
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Posted by: Random Numbers | Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 03:13 PM
Just to clarify, when someone is in jail for shoplifting, is it good enough that they get raped by another inmate, or should the rape be institutionalized and performed by an agent of the state?
Posted by: Evan | Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 07:07 PM
"should the rape be institutionalized and performed by an agent of the state?"
Unfortunately, we'd never get around the OSHA regs on that one - just have to continue to privatize it, I guess.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:01 PM
"She testified Friday that she voluntarily had sex with her former cellmate, Jorge Villavacencio, for a couple of weeks but that she changed her mind after he became violent and possessive."
A regular model of propriety, yep.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:06 PM
So it's okay to rape someone if they are not a model of propriety?
Or are you saying it's okay to rape someone if you've previously had consensual sex with them?
Posted by: Evan | Monday, July 23, 2007 at 12:11 AM
I didn't say rape was fine under any circumstances. You can read, I trust? You make it sound like shoplifting was all there was to it, forget about the parole? What was that for? You really think all shoplifters go to Folsom, really? And see below, a move was offered and refused. Along with rape not being fine, neither is having to pay for this crazy crap. So, as I said, all he/she had to do was stay out of prison. That's asking too much? Oh, of course it is, because now he/she's a victim. boo-freakin-hoo.
"Briefs filed by the state argue that Giraldo initially was in a consensual sexual relationship with her cellmate in violation of prison policy, did not report specific rape claims and refused offers to be moved to a different cell."
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Monday, July 23, 2007 at 03:45 AM
And in case you come back, I don't care who he/she wants to sleep with, what hormones he/she wants to take - all that's fine by me. But then dont' screw up and get put in prison and expect every tax payer to have to pony up for your effed up lifestyle because you suddenly grew tired of screwin your cell mate, whom you shouldn't have been screwin in the first place. Ciao!
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Monday, July 23, 2007 at 03:48 AM