Wednesday, April 18, 2018

When The Jail Doors Slam Behind You

And it echoes down the hall it is an eerily feeling even when you are just visiting.
Transgender Woman Booked Into Male Section Of Jail During Protest
CBS13 Sacramento
By Angela Musallam
April 17, 2018

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A transgender woman claims the Sacramento County Jail discriminated against her by booking her into the male section of the jail.

The woman was one of two people arrested during a Stephon Clark protest in front of the district attorney’s office on Thursday.

The woman’s arrest drew attention from city and county officials, who say they stepped in to help move the woman into another part of the jail.

Ebony Ava Harper was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on charges of failing to disperse during a protest, and resisting an officer.

Harper, who identifies as a transgender woman, says her experience Thursday was humiliating, and a nightmare.
I know that I would be worried about where they are going to place you if you’re arrested whether it is for protesting, DUI, or something else that I would probably end up in the men’s prison and I would be scared s**tless.

Even though we have gender inclusive laws that recognizes our true gender, the department of corrections ignores it and goes by body parts. But they also do intake interviews with a social worker who decides in which prison you are going to be placed in. So if you are a trans woman with passing privilege you will most likely end up in a women’s prison even if you don’t have Gender Confirming Surgery (GCS).

A couple of years ago I did training at a maximum security prison and it was disconcertingly feeling when you knew that there was only one way out and that was locked.

At the Trans Health and Law Conference there is a workshop about a trans woman’s experience in prison.

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