Prison Officials Must Protect Transgender Inmate, Rules Calif. Court of Appeal
Lawyers USA › November 18, 2008
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Prison officials could be sued for failing to prevent a transgender inmate from being beaten and raped by a cellmate, the California Court of Appeal has ruled in reversing a dismissal. The plaintiff is a male-to-female transgender person who was placed in the male inmate population of the state prison system.
She sued the state for negligence, alleging that prison officials ignored her pleas for protection when she suffered sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her cellmate.See the full content of this document
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Prison Officials Must Protect Transgender Inmate, Rules Calif. Court of Appeal
The state argued that it had no duty to protect the plaintiff fro...
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