San Francisco Jails Adopt New Policy for Transgender Inmates

http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/18/san-francisco-jails-adopt-new-policy-for-transgender-inmates/

The Daily Signal/Leah Jessen  / @_LeahKay_ / September 18, 2015

"The San Francisco County Jail will allow transgender inmates to be housed by their gender preference.

Announced on Thursday by Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, the first part of a two-phase policy will allow transgender women being housed in a men's facility to participate in programming at a women's facility.

"The high majority of municipal jails and prisons in this country make invisible, suppress or isolate inmates who are transgender," Mirkarimi said in a statement. "The driving reason is for their protection. However, this practice comes at a dehumanizing cost, often resulting in abuse and high recidivism rates due to in-custody and post-release neglect."