Associated Press (ap.org); CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Prison-Industrial Complex wants women: 10 Worst US Prisons (Julia Tutwiler/Mother Jones) |
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| John Becker is for gay, lesbian, transgender, questioning or LGBTQ rights (AP). |
First sex reassignment inmate says women's prison is "torture"
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| Michael and I are gay. I mean Michelle. |
SACRAMENTO, CA - The
first U.S. inmate to have taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgery says
she is being mistreated since being transferred to a California women's
prison, where she now has a beard and mustache because officials have
denied her a razor.
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| Shiloh Heavenly Q. (CDC) |
In a hand-written federal court filing, convicted killer Shiloh
Heavenly Quine called her new housing at the Central California Women's
Facility in Chowchilla a "torture unit."
She said she's unnecessarily
isolated from other inmates and denied basic items. State officials say she's being treated like other
female inmates. All initially are denied privileges like razors and TVs
as they are evaluated.
Quine, 57, had the surgery she had long sought in
January and was moved from a men's prison [to a women's prison] last month
She said she is
being treated as if she's a newly arrived inmate and denied
rehabilitation programs and privileges even though she's been serving a
life sentence since 1981.
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| (California's death row ) |
Quine is housed alone in a cell but said she still
has no privacy to perform required intimate post-operative procedures
and is enduring "a restrictive isolation" that is pushing her toward
anxiety, depression, and sadness. More
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