"The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population.
But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners."
That says so much. If I was a citizen of your fair land this would be
the cause I'd take up.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba  wrote:
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738\
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> .html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
> > 8.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>
>
> There is a lot of corruption here. The prison industry has a lot of
> privatization and in some places, the Judges have stakes in those
> privatized prisons.
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Seraphita"  wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your response. That has given me food for thought.
> > To me, one of the more grotesque features of American life has
always
> > been the horrendous treatment of prisoners in the US prison system.
It
> > has always astonished me that convicts have not been able to sue the
> > prison authorities for the gross abuse they are subject to: and yes,
> > rape is top of the list. When you think that citizens successfully
sue
> > McDonalds for scalding hot coffee and other crap through the courts
> how
> > prisoners are still subject to such barbaric treatment really
saddens
> > me. (And, yes, I know lots of them are complete low-lifes, but it
> > degrades us when we descend to that level.)
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Seraphita" s3raphita@
wrote:
> > >
> > > > Because I have a morbid curiosity, I was wondering if it's
> > > > ever happened that a convict has served time in a men's prison
> > > > and subsequently been transferred to a women's prison after the
> > > > necessary gender-reassignment. Why anyone on FFL should know the
> > > > answer to that one I can't imagine.
> > >
> > > I can't, but Manning isn't likely to actually get gender-
> > > reassignment *treatment* in prison, although her lawyer is
> > > planning to sue for it. Here's a video and two articles on
> > > the circumstances she faces:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqaNx8mDBc
> > > (interview with a trans friend of Manning)
> > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/08/22/chelsea_manning_is_now_t\
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> \
> > he_most_famous_transgender_inmate_in_america_all.html
> > > (article at Slate by Amanda Hess)
> > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/22/how-the-policy-might-be\
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> \
> > -changed.html
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/lcxqlea
> > >
> > > Excerpt from the Daily Beast piece:
> > >
> > > How Chelsea Manning Will Test the Military's Transgender Policy
> > >
> > > ...[The Prison Rape Elimination Act] led to regulations from the
> > federal Department of Justice to determine housing for transgender
> > inmates on a case-by-case basis, "taking into account factors like
> > personal preference and safety needs," according to the ACLU, not
> solely
> > based on their genitals. The act bans "protective custody" for
> > transgender inmates, along with segregated LGBT housing units, and
it
> > requires staff to be trained on how to communicate with and treat
> > transgender inmates, even including the ban of "genital searches of
> > transgender inmates just to determine their gender." Those rules, as
> of
> > June, apply to all correctional facilities that require federal
> funding.
> > >
> > > Manning's notoriety and her public revelation about being
> transgender
> > already put her at serious risk of harassment and/or rape at
> > Leavenworth. No giant leap from there, then to argue that Manning
> would
> > be best protected by the prison rape act by doing time in a women's
> > facility, [Dru Levasseur, transgender rights project director at
> Lambda
> > Legal] said....
> > >
> >
>

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