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Title: Suicide raising concerns for transgender inmate
Post by: Butterfly on January 13, 2009, 09:49:20 PM
Suicide raising concerns for transgender inmate
Boston Globe
By Denise Lavoie
January 13, 2009


http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/13/suicide_raising_concerns_for_transgender_inmate/ (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/13/suicide_raising_concerns_for_transgender_inmate/)


BOSTON --Lawyers for a transgender convicted killer suing the state for a sex-change operation say the Department of Correction doesn't do enough to prevent suicides, after a cross-dressing dermatologist apparently hanged himself in prison.