Philly Tabloid Says Prison Officials Too Easy On Transgender Inmate
Filed By Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 26, 2011 10:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/08/philly_paper_says_prison_officials_too_easy_on_tra.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/08/philly_paper_says_prison_officials_too_easy_on_tra.php)
Another disrespectful story has come out in the Philadelphia Daily News tabloid about the transfer of a trans prison inmate from a female to a male prison, after she accused a corrections officer of sexual assault. While it's more focused on embarrassing the city prisons commissioner for not putting this transgender prisoner in a men's prison in the first place than anything else, it manages to portray transgender inmates in an equally dismissive light as the first gem of an article that came out last week, in which the words "keister" and "butt" played a major role.
Meanwhile, 23 year old Jovanie Soldana has been punished by being put into a men's prison in obvious retaliation after she had the audacity to speak up about her sexual assault. I have no doubt that she is undergoing a hellish experience, about which we will likely get to know nothing because of the fact that prisons are practically free-speech-free zones, and the Constitution shows up once in a while to take a glance around before shuddering and walking out.
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Posted on Fri, Aug. 26, 2011
Anatomy is destiny ... except in Philly jails
BY DANA DiFILIPPO
Philadelphia Daily News
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/128448643.html (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/128448643.html)
TWO WEEKS after the discovery that a transgender inmate spent 14 months in the wrong city jail, Louis Giorla remains pestered by an undesirable question.
If one inmate slipped through the cracks, who else - or, really, what else - slipped through, too?
Giorla, the city prisons commissioner, had no answers for that question this week, as prison officials continued investigating how no one noticed - despite multiple strip searches and at least two medical exams - that Jovanie Saldana, 23, a homeless transgender woman charged with armed robbery, has male genitalia.