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Transgender California inmate freed from prison after parole
By elkharttruth.com- Don Thompson
Published: 08/13/2015

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California paroled a transgender inmate on Wednesday, one day before a federal appeals court was to hear her request for the state prison system to pay for her sex reassignment surgery.

Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, 51, was released from Mule Creek State Prison, a men’s facility east of Sacramento, and will be on parole in San Francisco.

Gov. Jerry Brown allowed her parole last week when he took no action on a Board of Parole Hearings’ recommendation that Norsworthy be freed 30 years after fatally shooting Franklin Gordon Liefer Jr., 26, following an argument in a Fullerton bar in November 1985.

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