Transgender convict sues MCI-Norfolk - claims abuse - wants to be moved to female prison

[edjr 5,563]

Massachusetts baby!

 

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A transgender prisoner who says she is being humiliated and harassed by fellow inmates and prison guards is suing the Department of Correction in hopes of becoming the Bay State’s first transgender inmate to be transferred to a jail where she’d be housed among other women.

The 52-year-old prisoner, identified in the federal complaint as Jane Doe, suffers from gender dysphoria, and is behind bars at Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Norfolk, where she’s serving a three- to four-year sentence for a nonviolent, drug-related offense.

The prisoner, who underwent a gender transition using hormone therapy in her teens, is asking to be moved to MCI-Framingham, where she could serve out the remainder of her sentence among other female inmates, according to the complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Boston.

She is also asking to be treated the same as any other female prisoner, including access to mammograms and female canteen items.

One of the woman’s attorneys, Jennifer L. Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, said her client is one of many transgender inmates who are suffering in Bay State prisons.

“There are other transgender women who are housed in men’s facilities who face daily harassment, abuse, and diminishment as women,” Levi told the Herald. “It’s important for people to be recognized as who they are. ... She’s serving time for the underlying conviction, she shouldn’t be punished for being transgender.”

During the prisoner’s time at MCI-Norfolk, she says she’s been subjected to strip searches conducted by male guards, was forced to stand naked and handcuffed in front of male prisoners, and dreads showering because “male prisoners crowd into the bathroom excitedly,” according to the suit.

But prison officials told her she couldn’t be transferred to the female prison until she completed genital surgery, according to the lawsuit, which accuses them of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not transferring her as part of her recommended treatment plan.

“They have traumatized her by forcing her to live in a male correctional facility, subjecting her to strip searches by male correctional officers, forcing her to shower in view of male prisoners ... and refusing to address or refer to her using female pronouns,” the suit reads.

“In short, Jane Doe is a woman being forced to eat, sleep, shower, and live with men and without appropriate, reasonable accommodations that she needs. ...”

In addition to the Department of Correction, the prisoner is suing Corrections Commissioner Thomas A. Turco III, MCI-Norfolk Superintendent Sean Medeiros, Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator James M. O’Gara Jr. and Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Clinical Services Stephanie Collins.

The DOC did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

 

 

 

drobeski must be so proud to call this home.

 

 

seems to me a freak like this would LOVE being in a male prison

[drobeski 3,061]

In these cases I support postpartum abortion.

[Reality 2,710]

Oh yea, if I ever go to prison that will be my strategy.. Move me to the chick prison!!

 

[edjr 5,563]

In these cases I support postpartum abortion.

 

[Voltaire 4,558]

Oh yea, if I ever go to prison that will be my strategy.. Move me to the chick prison!!

 

I'll be spending the six months before I rob the bank as a transgender lesbian just in case things go sour and I get caught.

[edjr 5,563]

I'll be spending the six months before I rob the bank as a transgender lesbian just in case things go sour and I get caught.

 

Are you saying MDC's time to strike is now?

[Voltaire 4,558]

 

Are you saying MDC's time to strike is now?

He's ready to go any time.

[NorthernVike 2,080]

Oh yea, if I ever go to prison that will be my strategy.. Move me to the chick prison!!

 

 

Are you saying MDC's time to strike is now?

[kilroy69 994]

He is not a woman. Putting him in with real women puts their safety in danger.

[NorthernVike 2,080]

He is not a woman. Putting him in with real women puts their safety in danger.

[edjr 5,563]

He is not a woman. Putting him in with real women puts their safety in danger.

 

How dare you?

 

you should be put in prison for being that insensitive!!

[fandandy 3,311]

But prison officials told her she couldn’t be transferred to the female prison until she completed genital surgery, according to the lawsuit, which accuses them of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not transferring her as part of her recommended treatment plan.

What's the disability? Being focked in the head or is something else wrong with it?

[vuduchile 1,941]

What's the disability? Being focked in the head or is something else wrong with it?

If getting focked in the head were a disability, your wife would be an invalid.

[edjr 5,563]

Imagine, claiming abuse could potentially land you in a female prison

[Thornton Melon 544]

I have the feeling it isnt going to fare much better in the female prison.

[fandandy 3,311]

If getting focked in the head were a disability, your wife would be an invalid.

Ex-wife, and she always complained about that. I always told her my next wife is gonna like to suck . Ten years later I'm still single. I shoulda kept my mouth shut.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,579]

but wait aren't these the same people who are telling us men and women are the same?