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Title: So They Say
Post by: LostInTime on July 26, 2007, 06:25:22 AM
Post by: LostInTime on July 26, 2007, 06:25:22 AM
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"Prisons are violent places, and male prisons are especially violent places. 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."
— Greg Walston, the attorney for Alexis Giraldo, a male-to-female transgender person who alleges being repeatedly raped and beaten by her cellmate at Folsom State Prison, Associated Press, July 23. Giraldo is challenging a California policy that assigns transgender inmates to men's or women's prisons depending on whether they have undergone gender reassignment surgery.
"Prisons are violent places, and male prisons are especially violent places. 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."
— Greg Walston, the attorney for Alexis Giraldo, a male-to-female transgender person who alleges being repeatedly raped and beaten by her cellmate at Folsom State Prison, Associated Press, July 23. Giraldo is challenging a California policy that assigns transgender inmates to men's or women's prisons depending on whether they have undergone gender reassignment surgery.