Posted on 06/10/2019 4:13:54 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Transgender woman, 27, is found dead in her cell on Rikers Island as heartbroken family blast prison bosses for 'failing to protect' her
An investigation has been launched after a transgender woman was found dead in her cell at Rikers Island jail in New York City.
Layleen Polanco, 27, had been arrested on April 16th for allegedly assaulting a cab driver in Harlem and having a controlled substance.
Officials at the Queens jail found Polanco unresponsive in her cell on Friday afternoon in the part of the prison on Rikers Island that houses female inmates.
Despite efforts to revive her, she was pronounced dead an hour later according to ABC7.
New York's Department of Correction said they are still investigating the death, but said it does not appear to be the result of violence or foul play.
The Medical Examiner will work to determine the cause of death, and prison bosses have promised an investigation.
Members of the transgender community are planning a rally outside 100 Centre Street for Monday to demand answers and justice for Polanco.
Polanco is the 10th trans woman to be found dead in the US this year.
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Suicide?
Those women henpecked him to death!
LOL. That should be hysterically entertaining. A bunch of riled up queens bitching and shrieking and swinging their purses. Ooooh! They are just so mad!
The correct question is “Who cares?”
There are SO MANY deaths in jails and prisons.
What about all the normal he and she folks that die?
They are all God’s creatures so we must care.
But one life shouldn’t be considered more important than another.
And the INSANITY that most go on in the minds of these people!! Suffering, to say the least.
Remember seeing a “woman” who weighed about 300 pounds at “Limelight” in the city, maybe 25 years ago.
“She” broke her heeled show like a gorilla snapping bamboo.
It was heartbreaking.
At least on the shoe :)
Smells like another mentally ill suicide.
Huge suicide rate for transgenders.
One less sick freak in the world.
What else would we expect form the mentally ill that we do not help and instead encourage??
[Transgender woman, 27]
Ah, a DUDE.
It’s amazing that they’re still using the term “alleged”, even though he’s been convicted and in prison.
Drug ODs?
Dude (tries to) look like a lady.
Yeah, freaky.
And then Spain has one win what should be a contest for women only....
Assume that this wonderful family will demonstrate their shame at having screwed up raising their son and wear bags over their heads for the protest...
Possibly from the drugs she took.
It’s not the fault of the prison.
She was in a private cell and nobody harmed her.
So, to be accurate, a dude was found dead in the girl jail.
You can't change genders no matter what you cut off or mutilate.
Gay men don't want anything to do with castrated men, pretending to be women.
Gay women don't want anything to do with men, gelded or not. They smell funny.
A few years ago, the head of the Johns Hopkins sexual transformation department, after due diligent study, and before he was fired for heresy, published a study that had found that mutilating otherwise healthy organs was not a cure for a mental condition.
Trannie lifestyle choices leave them twisting in the wind. If they spend $50,000 to find a butcher willing to cut them, they always discover that they still aren't the body they want, and there is no going back.
This crazy, dying in a NY jail allows his family to get a payoff from a remarkably stupid government, instead of having to bury him on their own dime.
Pump enough estrogen into a fella and his ***** is likely to shrivel up to almost nothing.But that won't make him a woman...it just makes him a horribly deformed guy.
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