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| Pa. prisons overhaul policies for transgender inmates |
| By philly.com- Samantha Melamed |
| Published: 09/23/2015 |
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Over the last few months, unusual missives began arriving in the post office box of the Hearts on a Wire Collective, a grassroots collaboration between transgender people who meet weekly at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia and transgender prison inmates around the state. "We started getting letters from folks on the inside saying, 'I just had this bizarre conversation I never expected to have,' " said Adrian Lowe, one of the organizers. "People were saying, 'They just asked me if I needed a bra! I'm so excited.' Or, 'I ordered lipstick, and I didn't get sent to the hole!' " For transgender women housed in men's prisons around Pennsylvania - a small but deeply vulnerable group, including those who say they've been sexually harassed, assaulted, and raped while in state custody - the rules have quietly changed. Read More. |
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