California legislature passes bill protecting LGBT prisoners

[Butterfly]

California legislature passes bill protecting LGBT prisoners
SDGLN
25 August, 2010


http://sdgln.com/news/2010/08/25/california-legislature-passes-bill-protecting-lgbt-prisoners


SACRAMENTO – The California State Senate today passed the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Prisoner Safety Act, AB 633, in a 26-9 vote.

Sponsored by Equality California and introduced by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, the bill is designed to prevent violence against LGBT people in the state prison system.

[Allamakee]

I am not familiar with these new standards, but if 69% of transgender prisoners are sexually assaulted while in prison, something needs to be done.  I can't imagine why Schwarzenegger wouldn't sign the bill into law, but if he refused before, he might well do it again.

[Vicky]

Even more regretably, transgendered people are not the only group who are sexually assaulted in the California prison system in heavy numbers.