And after a while, if you're acceptable, you'll be accepted," Fey said. While in prison, Guerrero, serving time for second-degree murder, often wrote home and seemed OK, Flores said. She learned via telegram that Guerrero had been killed. At the trial, he confirmed her handwriting on the form where she said she feared being raped by her killer.
What she wrote told him she was pleading for her life. Search-Icon Created with Sketch. KQED is a proud member of. Always free. Sign In. KQED Inform. Save Article Save Article. The California Report. Listen 8 min. Miranda Leitsinger. Jan 8, Failed to save article Please try again. Carmen Guerrero spent less than nine hours with her new cellmate before he murdered her. A prison photo of Carmen Guerrero, a transgender woman killed by her cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison in late Her cellmate, Miguel Crespo, was sentenced to death in her murder in December Her family said in court that they didn't have any photos of Carmen because they were lost in a house fire.
Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Prison guards told Crespo the move would be temporary, the other inmate testified. James Star Henderson right and Mark Peaches Cate, two transgender woman housed at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, take their pulse after exercising in the prison gym on June 11, Pictured left is their coach, Jeremiah Holland. Ava Fey, a transgender woman who started taking hormone replacement therapy in January, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, After that promise, the Correctional Service Canada CSC — which governs the federal penitentiary — changed its transgender inmate placement policy.
About the old policy, Boyer, Odeyemi and Fletchers stated :. This CSC policy has led to extreme difficulties for these women, who are often subjected to sexual harassment and assault. Frequently, they are sent to solitary confinement or are otherwise isolated for their protection. According to the interim policy:. Any conversations or consultations amongst staff or with the offender, including discussions regarding cell sharing and intake interviews, must occur privately, out of hearing range of anyone else that does not need to know.
In addition, the Gender Dysphoria policy states that a prisoner is considered for sex-reassignment surgery if they have lived in an identity-congruent gender role for twelve continuous months and a specialist physician recommends the surgery. The CSC will pay the cost of the surgery and will proceed without delay to determine the timing of the surgery. Trans prisoners will be permitted to wear clothing appropriate to their self-identified gender. Her court application came after the CSC denied her transfer request.
Justice Grammond stated:. It will also look at the care and management of transgender offenders by the probation service. Where relevant, clothing and toiletries are provided to enable the prisoner to present in their acquired gender, consistent with the arrangements set out in the instruction. Prisons must produce a management care plan outlining how the individual will be managed safely and decently within the prison environment, with oversight from psychologists, healthcare professionals and prison staff.
This article is more than 5 years old. Prisons will, by their nature, include violent and dangerous individuals who present a risk to other inmates.
The question was whether the Ministry of Justice policy of placing transgender women among the general female prison population could be applied in a way that was not unlawfully discriminatory. In the end, the judge accepted there was "a margin of discretion" in balancing the competing rights and managing the risks. However, while the policy itself is ruled to be lawful, the judgement does make it clear that individual decisions are still open to challenge. Image source, Getty Images.
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