Uncommon decency
Transgender women prepare to file lawsuit in response to treatment in D.C. jails
by Yusef Najafi
http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=3345Published on April 3, 2008
In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail facility -- ignoring her pleas to be moved throughout her two-day stay. Transgender activist Ruby Corado was one of many at the time advocating for a change in booking procedures.
''There's really no guidelines that are in place on how to deal with transgender individuals,'' Corado, a member of the D.C. Trans Coalition, said at the time. ''And the bigger [issue] is people are arrested, booked, and then... housed in the wrong section of the jails [where] they just get victimized over and over again.''
