Trans women on second week of prison hunger strike:
Two San Diego prison inmates highlight the treatment of incarcerated trans individuals
MONDAY, OCT 1, 2012 02:30 PM PDT
BY NATASHA LENNARD
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/trans_women_on_second_week_of_prison_hunger_strike/singleton/Two trans women in a San Diego prison entered their second week of hunger strike over the weekend.
Amazon and Catarina, both trans women imprisoned at that Richard J. Donovan Correctional facility, have refused food since Sept. 21 in a strike "against the unfair treatment of trans women within [the prison]," according to a release from radical trans women's collective Gender Anarky (of which both inmates are members).
Since both Amazon and Catarina are trans women in a men's prison, the inmates have been held in isolated, single cells — despite having asked to share a cell with each other. It is not clear what convictions the two inmates are serving time for...
Transgender individuals are regularly put on single-cell status, or even moved into solitary confinement in the U.S. prison system.
