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Lawsuit: Transgender woman says her rights were violated in men's prison
Toledo Blade ^ | 13 January 2020 | Allison Dunn

Posted on 01/14/2020 2:48:14 PM PST by Steely Tom

A black transgender woman incarcerated at a men’s state prison has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming she was mistreated during her time behind bars, and was forced to share a cell with a white supremacist as punishment for speaking up about her rights.

Her driver’s license identifies her as a female, she has undergone a breast augmentation procedure, and she takes hormone therapy drugs. The lawsuit claims the harm suffered by the woman amounted to the violation of her civil rights, and demonstrated the discriminatory nature of MCI’s policies toward and treatment of transgender inmates.

The plaintiff in the case was sentenced in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on August, 2018, to 11 months in prison for grand theft and possessing criminal tools charges. She was sent to the Marion Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in Marion that houses about 2,500 male inmates.

When the woman filed formal complaints with prison administrators, MCI leaders assigned her to be a cellmate with violent offender Joseph Hughey, who is known to have ties to white supremacy groups, according to the lawsuit. Hughey is accused of subjecting the woman to repeated harassment and threats. The plaintiff filed additional complaints with MCI, but nothing changed.

Hughey’s abuse of his cellmate culminated when the man, on two occasions in December, 2018, and January, 2019, sexually assaulted her, according to the lawsuit.

(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: prison; transgender
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1 posted on 01/14/2020 2:48:14 PM PST by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom

Maybe he was put in the cell to torment the white guy.


2 posted on 01/14/2020 2:49:37 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: Steely Tom

“11 months in prison for grand theft and possessing criminal tools charges.”

speaking of tools, you’d think this puke would know which tool he was born with...


3 posted on 01/14/2020 2:50:43 PM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: Steely Tom

I’m still new at this.

Is a transgendered woman really a man who thinks he’s a woman, or is it a woman that thinks she’s a man?


4 posted on 01/14/2020 2:51:22 PM PST by Westbrook
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To: Steely Tom

Lesson: if you’re a wombat who doesn’t know what a dickie-do, don’t also be a criminal.


5 posted on 01/14/2020 2:52:32 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ("Jesus was a fundamentalist".- BipolarBob)
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To: Steely Tom
Well hopefully she at least had access to menstrual products. /sarc
6 posted on 01/14/2020 2:52:53 PM PST by llevrok (Vote while it is still legal)
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To: Steely Tom

Cut off the supply of hormones, let him deal with truth rather than fantasy.


7 posted on 01/14/2020 2:52:54 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Westbrook

She’s a woman in the opinion of the Toledo Blade, and in the opinion of the author of this article, who is “also” a woman.


8 posted on 01/14/2020 2:53:01 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

Man, this story is confusing.

Its like reading a 500 page novel where everyone is named PAT.


9 posted on 01/14/2020 2:53:33 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Westbrook
"Is a transgendered woman really a man who thinks he’s a woman, or is it a woman that thinks she’s a man?"

Just substitute "fake" for transgendered.

A "transgendered" woman is a fake woman, i.e. a mutilated male.

10 posted on 01/14/2020 2:53:43 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Westbrook

Transgendered man is really a chick, transgendered woman is really a dude.


11 posted on 01/14/2020 2:53:57 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Steely Tom

Well, I guess it’s time to
build jails and prisons just
for transgender criminals.


12 posted on 01/14/2020 2:54:17 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Westbrook

The easy way to remember this BS -

Trans means Fake - Transmale, means fake man
Transfemale, means fake female


13 posted on 01/14/2020 2:55:04 PM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Lean-Right

Wasn’t it not long ago the left was trying to get rid of all language that described what gender (sex) we all were?

What happened to that?


14 posted on 01/14/2020 2:56:56 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Dacula

Don’t do the crime if you are afraid to do the time.


15 posted on 01/14/2020 2:57:32 PM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Steely Tom

don’t do the crime if you’re gonna whine about the time. also he chose to get breasts added. I don’t see if he had his part removed or not. right they should jail him with men if he still had it.


16 posted on 01/14/2020 2:58:44 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Westbrook

The woman takes a leak standing up.


17 posted on 01/14/2020 2:58:45 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Westbrook

In Transgendered X, X is what the freak thinks he/she has transformed INTO. (In your mind read the opposite of X)


18 posted on 01/14/2020 2:59:48 PM PST by libh8er
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To: Westbrook

It’s a dude who thought he figured out a way to game the system.. He can still commit crimes, but when sentenced to prison, he’d get sent to the women’s prison with his junk in place.

Only thing is apparently word hasn’t really spread what happens to these guys in women’s prison. Either they’re kept in isolation, or in the hospital ward when the women beat and mutilate the men.

But hey, more entertainment when this guy breaks his parole.


19 posted on 01/14/2020 3:00:22 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Steely Tom
He's still a male, no matter what he THINKS he is.
He WILL age like a man--"beer belly," 5 o'clock shadow, bushy eyebrows, hair growing out of his ears and nose and all the other stuff that men go through as they age.

DNA trumps everything no matter HOW many hormones he takes.

It's pathetic.

He needs our good Lord.

20 posted on 01/14/2020 3:01:18 PM PST by cloudmountain
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