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| Mass. chief opposes sex change |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 05/12/2008 |
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MASSACHUSETTS - Allowing a convicted killer to get a sex-change operation would pose insurmountable safety and security problems for the state prison system, the Massachusetts corrections chief said. Harold Clarke, who took over the department in November, said allowing the surgery for Michelle Kosilek could make her a target for assault by other inmates. He said prison officials also have concerns that Kosilek _ who is serving a life sentence without parole _ could try to escape if she is taken out of state for the surgery. Clarke outlined his opposition to the surgery in court papers filed this week, mirroring arguments made by his predecessor, Kathleen Dennehy. Kosilek, 58, was born a man, Robert, but underwent a legal name change to Michelle in 1993 and has been living as a woman in an all-male prison in Norfolk. Robert Kosilek was sentenced to life in prison for murdering wife Cheryl in 1990. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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