Judge leaves inmate with a hair across 'her' case
By Laurel J. Sweet
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090812judge_leaves_inmate_with_a_hair_across_her_case/srvc=home&position=alsoMichelle Kosilek's hair today won't be gone tomorrow now that a federal judge has refused to force the state Department of Correction to continue the convicted cross-dressing wife slayer's thus-far futile electrolysis treatments.
While abashedly conceding yesterday behind a boyish grin, "I don't know what electrolysis costs," U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf pointedly suggested to DOC's legal team that fighting the issue in court "has to be considerably more expensive and time-consuming" than voluntarily plucking a few follicles for a prisoner diagnosed with gender identity disorder.
Kosilek, 60, who has been living as a woman in state prison since 1993, cut a hair-raising figure as she strode into Wolf's courtroom in a denim shirt and jeans, crimped brown hair flowing down her back and gobs of rouge accentuating her cheekbones.
