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| AZ jails and prisons evaluating transgender policies |
| By kpho.com- Morgan Loew, Gilbert Zermeno & Edward Ayala |
| Published: 07/17/2015 |
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PHOENIX (CBS5) - Officials from the Arizona Department of Corrections are set to meet with advocacy groups next week to discuss policies for the treatment of transgender inmates. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office also is in the process of creating a policy for its transgender inmates. Depending on the outcome, this could require millions of dollars at the state and county levels for new construction or retrofitting of older facilities. "Some states and counties have LGBT policies in place already," said Dianne Post, who is an attorney for the NAACP. She sent a letter to the Department of Corrections two years ago, asking for a meeting to address complaints from LGBT inmates. "There is a real need, but it just takes time," MCSO Deputy Chief Tracy Haggard said. She runs the county jail system. She said coming up with a policy is not as easy as it may sound because transgender inmates do not fall into traditional gender categories. "Certainly if you still have female parts and we put you in with the men, that’s not a very safe position to put that individual in," Haggard said. "If they are female transitioning into male and you still have breasts and you still have genitalia, then you will be housed as a female." Read More. |
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