CLARKSBURG, MD (WUSA9) – He’s out of a job and in trouble with the law after police say a former corrections officers hired to protect inmates sexually assaulted one instead. Montgomery County Correction Officials describe the inmate not as a transgender woman but a person who identifies as a woman but is living in the
It was Gay Pride weekend in New York City, but the event’s celebratory spirit was absent from Michelle Scott’s tidy second-floor apartment on a leafy street near Brooklyn College. Her child, Carey Smith, is a transgender woman currently locked up in solitary confinement in Upstate Correctional Facility, a men’s supermax prison located in the Adirondacks.
Joe Booth, 47, figures he’s only alive because one person out of dozens responded to letters he’d written begging for help. Serving time in a state prison near San Diego in 2009 for making a death threat against a man who defrauded his ailing mother, he was transferred to a cell with a prisoner who
Governors in all but two states — Arkansas and Utah — have offered assurances to the U.S. Department of Justice that their lockups can be brought into compliance with federal guidelines to reduce sexual assault in prisons. The Justice Department in September sought word from the states on whether they were in compliance with the
Utah continues to reject federal guidelines meant to prevent prison rape — and now is one of only two states that won’t comply, according to a recently released U.S. Department of Justice report. Nineteen states have fully adopted standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, according to the department’s latest compliance list. Another