Sheryl Woodhall a California woman in her late 30s, first lost custody of her four children in 1995, when her youngest tested positive for methamphetamine at birth. The state's Child Protective Services intervened and sent her two older children to live with her parents and placed the younger two in ...
In May, 1990, the first issue of Prisoners' Legal News (PLN) was published. It was hand typed, photocopied and ten pages long. The first issue was mailed to 75 potential subscribers. Its budget was $50. The first 3 issues were banned in all Washington prisons, the first 18 in all ...
Since PLN started in 1990 we have been censored in prisons and jails around the country. We have always attempted to resolve censorship issues administratively, but in cases where the goal was to keep PLN out of prison at any cost, that obviously wasn't possible. We have aggressively challenged censorship ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 6
On February 27, 1999, a Baldwin county superior court jury in Georgia awarded prisoner Stephanie Stitt $600,000 in damages in a medical neglect suit against Correctional Medical Systems (CMS). Stitt fell and injured her back while playing volleyball at the Baldwin State Prison. The Georgia Department of Corrections has contracted ...
This issue celebrates PLN's tenth anniversary. One thing about PLN is that we have pretty much muddled along and done the best we could. To this day, no one involved in PLN's daily operations has any professional experience in journalism or publishing. We're all self taught and learned as we ...
In April, 2003, a state prison dentist settled for $3,150 a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit brought by a prisoner in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the dentist refused to provide dentures.
Charles Jackson, a prisoner at the Texas DCJ's Coffield Unit, began ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 6
On February 27, 1999, a Baldwin county superior court jury in Georgia awarded prisoner Stephanie Stitt $600,000 in damages in a medical neglect suit against Correctional Medical Systems (CMS). Stitt fell and injured her back while playing volleyball at the Baldwin State Prison. The Georgia Department of Corrections has contracted ...
While much attention has been paid lately to denying AIDS/HIV treatment as being too expensive for prisoners, little focus has been aimed at those restricting or denying treatment for prisoner's infected with the hepatitis C virus.
Hepatitis is spreading in institutions across this country at a rate far greater than ...
DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care At Missouri Prison
by Michael Rigby
Allegations of improper medical treat-ment, lack of medical treatment, and several suspicious deaths at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, a state women's prison in Vandalia, Missouri, has prompted an investigation by the Civil Rights Division of ...
by Ron Petersen and Tamara Menteer
On November 15, 1999, after 6 years overseeing an injunction, a federal judge issued a ruling finding the Washington state civil commitment facility known as The Special Commitment Center (SCC) , the nation's first civil commitment program designed to re-incarcerate sex offenders beyond the ...
By now the observant reader will have noticed that this issue of Prison Legal News is 48 pages in length rather than 40. PLN recently switched printers which offered a variety of services, including higher quality newsprint and also allows us to expand in size, something our previous printer was ...
Lawrence Jacobs Jr. was on trial for first degree murder in Jefferson Parish Louisiana when an assistant district attorney approached him and whispered "We're going to hang you boy."
Lawrence Jacobs Sr., who was only in the courtroom to support his son, didn't hear the words but he got the ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 9
Two separate state court class action lawsuits have challenged the excessive phone rates charged to people who accept collect calls from New Mexico state prisoners. The first lawsuit, Valdez v. Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, was filed on December 30, 1999, in Rio Arriba district court. The plaintiffs have family members imprisoned ...
Two suits were filed against Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) in less than a week. On April 15, 2003 the family of Iulai Amani sued CCA and the state of Hawaii for "wrongful conduct" resulting in Amani's death. The lawsuit came exactly two years from the date Amani died in ...
Lima, Peru--
There is good news in the struggle to defend the Peruvian lawyers who are under attack from the U.S.backed Fujimori regime for their courageous work in defending political prisoners. A trial for six of the defense lawyers ended in acquittal. On September 20, five of the lawyers - ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 11
Kentucky
In October 2002, a federal jury awarded a former Fayette County Jail guard $196,000. James Young Sr., an African American, was fired from the jail in 1993 after complaining for over a year that black workers at the jail were not regarded as equal to whites and that former ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 11
A federal district court in New York upheld a $150,000 jury verdict against prison officials, concluding that the award was not excessive. The court also held, in a separate ruling, that the Prison Litigation Reform Act, (PLRA), cap on attorney's fees does not apply to claims brought under the Americans ...
In its 2003 session the Washington leg-islature enacted numerous laws affecting prisoners. Highlights of the most relevant laws are as follows:
Regional Jails
Substitute House Bill 1609 instructs the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to present a plan by Dec. 31, 2003, for creating "pilot regional correctional facilities," and establishing a "regional ...
by Walter M. Reaves, Jr.
This column will address recent decisions which have some impact on post-conviction procedure. The summary is by no means exhaustive, and contains only those decisions which may have some potential impact on defendants pursuing to post-conviction claims. For the most part, the decisions are from ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 13
An acrimonious inter-employee dis-pute among staff of Washington's Department of Corrections was settled in January, 2002 by the state paying three Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) employees $230,000 and gaining both their resignations as well as promises never again to work for Washington DOC.
When John Schildt sued Washington DOC and ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 14
The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a prisoner's complaint that he was retaliated against for using the prison grievance system, denied access to all publications and denied dental care, stated a claim. Missouri prisoner Percy Cooper filed suit claiming be was wrongly placed in administrative segregation ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 14
More than 700 prisoners at Florida's maximum-security Martin Correctional Institution (MCI) had to be evacuated October 26, 1999 while state crews scrambled to make emergency repairs to a water plant plagued by breakdowns, sickening odors and contaminants. Workers set up portable toilets and trucked in water for about 500 prisoners ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 15
After receiving a tip from an unidentified informant in June of 1997, Ohio prison officials uncovered evidence of a parole-for-pay scam. While screening prisoner mail, officials read a letter from Grafton Correctional Institution prisoner Bubba Shumate addressed to Lynn Moore, a former Grafton prisoner who was paroled in 1997 and ...
by Assistant Professor Margo Schlanger, Reprinted (soft back)
from the Harvard Law Review, Vol. 116, No.6, April 2003; 151 pp.
Review by John E. Dannenberg
Inmate Litigation is a scholarly analysis on the effectiveness of prisoner civil rights litigation filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 both before and after the ...
by Mark Sherwood and Bob Posey
Thirty percent of the 129 doctors who provide medical care to prisoners incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) have marks on their records ranging from malpractice to fraud. The FDOC rarely fires or disciplines doctors it hires, even in cases where negligence ...
Good and Bad News in Haverty Aftermath:
No Good Time for Ad-Seg Placement
by Phillip Kassel
Last October, the Massachusetts Su-preme Judicial Court held that prisoners may not be maintained in harsh solitary confinement cells without the provision of procedural protections set forth in "constitutionally required" regulations that the Department ...
In the early 1990's, David Horwitz owned Kwalu, a Capetown, South Africa based company which manufactured generic tables and chairs for fast food chains, hotels, and hospitals. Furniture construction is a labor-intensive business, and though Kwalu's labor costs in Capetown were low, Horwitz thought he could make them lower still. ...
by Iñaki Markiegi
Today Palestinians remain foreigners in their own land. Faced with the apathy of the international community, the nearly two and half million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, the million in the Israeli State and the more than three million Palestinians in ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 20
The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a prisoner's transfer to a different prison mooted his religious rights lawsuit. Duane Smith is an Iowa state prisoner of the Wiccan faith. He filed suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to the effect that officials at the Iowa State ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 20
Scores of death row prisoners in Texas kicked off the new millennium with a planned 21-day hunger strike over intolerable conditions of confinement. As many as 100 death row prisoners as well as hundreds of other ad-seg prisoners participated in the hunger strike, according to reports by Gloria Rubac published ...
In Texas and California the hard line against crime has crashed against the bottom line of deficient state budgets. Short money and long sentences have politicians from both states purporting to search frantically for fiscal solutions.
Texas legislators have proposed a variety of bills that would potentially release prisoners. One ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 20
California has ordered $2.3 million in stab-resistant body armor from DBH Industries' subsidiary Protective Apparel Corp. of America (PACA)enough to give body armor to all California prison guards. The order is the largest ever received from the prison industry by body armor specialists DBH.
Meanwhile, DBH subsidiary Point Blank Body ...
Review by Julia Lutsky
The United States is finding itself increasingly isolated by its intransigence with respect to the death penalty. At a time when the rest of the world is moving toward eradication of this barbaric practice, the United States almost alone of all nations is moving to increase ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 21
Nevada Religious Group Gets Federal Money
to Help Prisoners, Delivers Nothing
by Matthew T. Clarke
Alliance Collegiums Association of Southern Nevada (ACASN), a faith-based organization led by black ministers with the stated mission of providing prisoners with support services after parole, received a federal grant for $423,000 in October 2002. ...
The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit held that when a prisoner's claim for perspective injunctive relief regarding conditions of confinement becomes moot, the prisoner's parole or supervised release status does not, absent some exceptional showing, bring that claim under the narrow "capable of repetition, yet evading review" exception ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 22
The Ninth Circuit court of appeals has held that California state prisoners who seek only monetary damages in federal civil rights suits need not file a prison grievance before filing suit.
MacArthur Rumbles, a California state prisoner, filed a civil rights suit against prison guards seeking monetary damages. The guards ...
California
On April 29, 2003, then California Governor Gray Davis signed legislation awarding two wrongfully convicted prisoners $100 per day for every day they were in prison. Ricky Daye, who spent 10 years in Folsom Prison, and Leonard McSherry, who served nearly 13 years, will receive $389,000 and $481,000, respectively. ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 23
PLN has extensively reported on the prevalence of sexual assault and sexual harassment of women prisoners in District of Columbia prisons and jails. In "Our Sisters Keepers," by Daniel Burton Rose, [PLN, Feb. 1999] we reported on women prisoners in the District of Columbia (D.C.) jail being forced to participate ...
The U.S. district court for the East ern District of California held that a prisoner was not precluded from introducing evidence contradicting factual findings of disciplinary proceeding instituted against prisoner as a result of incident.
Vincent Marquez, a California state prisoner, brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil action against ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 24
As an issue of first impression, the New Mexico Supreme Court recently held that restoration of lost good-time credits and an order prohibiting another hearing were the proper remedies for a prison disciplinary infraction that violated a prisoner's right to due process of law. The Court noted, however, that its ...
by John E. Dannenberg
King County and the City of Seattle settled a wrongful strip-search suit for $115,000 on May 21, 2003 and also agreed to change strip-search policies at King County jails.
Jasmine Wells and Brian Walton, college students in Anchorage, Alaska, had come to Seattle on November 30, ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 25
The appeals court for the Seventh circuit held that if a pretrial ruling is definitive, objection at trial is not necessary to preserve the issue for appellate review. The court also held that objection to a guard's counsel's references to pretrial detainee as "cop killer" was forfeited, such references did ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 25
Magistrate Judge Recuses Self in BOP
Medical Treatment Case
A Magistrate Judge for the District of Columbia has recused himself on the federal government's motion from a case involving the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and its medical care of a pre-operative transsexual prisoner.
Barbie Black, a BOP prisoner, is a ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 25
The U.S. district court for the southern district of Ohio held that a genuine issue of material fact precluded summary judgement against an arrestee who was denied needed AIDS medication during his eight-day jail incarceration.
Devin Karl Murphy brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against defendants Deborah L. Bray, ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 26
Dismissal Reversed for Determination Whether
Prisoner Was Misled About Remedies
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Pennsylvania federal district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's suit. The court ruled that there was a substantial, disputed question whether the prisoner failed to exhaust administrative remedies or had been ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 26
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that when prison officials fail to respond to administrative remedies, those remedies are rendered "unavailable" and deemed exhausted under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). The court also held that prison officials were not estopped from raising an exhaustion defense.
In October 1997, ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 26
CA: Dept. of Corrections sergeant Richard Selio murdered his estranged wife on Sept. 26, 1999, then shot and killed himself after a SWAT team stormed his house following an eight hour standoff. Selio was a transport officer at the California Institute for Men. His wife, Teresa, also was a CDC ...
The Seventh Circuit court of appeals has reversed summary judgment where issues of material fact remain concerning guards' deliberate indifference to a prisoner's safety in a failure to protect case.
Bryan Case, an Illinois state prisoner, small statured and classified as a "vulnerable victim," was released from segregation to the ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 27
A federal district court in New York denied prison officials' motion for summary judgment, holding that defendants failed to establish as a matter of law that 28 C.F.R § 541.22 - the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) administrative segregation (ad seg) rule - does not create a protected liberty interest in ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 27
On July 2, 2003, a federal jury in Chicago, Illinois, awarded $700,000 in damages to a female employee of the Chicago jail in Illinois who was sexually harassed and assaulted by a male co-worker. Kathleen Kessel, 35, and Beverly Meador, 44, were employed by the Cook County sheriff's office at ...
California Parole Rescission Panel's Disagreement With Granting Panel Fails The "Some Evidence" Standard
by John E. Dannenberg
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a California life prisoner's rescission of his unexecuted grant of parole by a rescission panel's finding of "improvident grant" of parole failed the "some ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 28
The U.S. court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that transsexual and HIV+ prisoners have a privacy right to confidentiality of their prison medical records and physical conditions. However, because this principle was not clearly established law, the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity on this, but not on ...
Exceeding Doctor's Work Limit Order Actionable
Under Eighth Amendment
by John E. Dannenberg
The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that prison officials' forcing of a prisoner to work in excess of a four hour doctor-established daily limit, resulting in dangerous blood pressure elevation, was sufficient to state an ...
BOP Electric Musical Instrument Ban
Upheld by DC Circuit
by John E. Dannenberg
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the BOP ban on electric musical instruments in federal prisons, rejecting prisoner arguments that the ban violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) as well as their First ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 30
New York's Court of Appeals, its highest court, has held prisoner Francisco Sanchez's state tort lawsuit alleging negligent supervision against the state of New York raises an issue of whether an assault on Sanchez was foreseeable. The Court of Claims granted the State's motion for summary judgment on grounds the ...
The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that a prisoner, who alleged a guard told the other prisoners that it was "open season" on the prisoner, stated a claim under § 1983 for violation of the prisoner's Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, ...
by John E. Dannenberg
The class of all Wyoming state pris-oners won injunctive relief forcing prison officials to protect them from unprovoked assault, bodily injury and death at the hands of other prisoners, now, and in the future. Granting summary judgment to the plaintiff class, the US District Court (D. ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 31
Citing a "shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row", Illinois governor George Ryan announced a halt to state executions. The January 31 announcement marked the first such moratorium in the U.S.
The Nebraska Legislature passed a moratorium on executions in 1999, citing concerns about racial ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 32
Dismissal Without Notice for Untimely Service
of § 1983 Complaint Is Abuse of Discretion
When the United States District Court (SD NY) dismissed a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint for his failure to serve it within 120 days, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed because the district court ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 32
Affirming the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the United States was entitled to summary judgment under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) in a prisoner's medical malpractice claim.
Michael Massey, a prisoner formerly at the Federal Correctional ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 33
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held circumstantial evidence in a retaliation claim is sufficient to defeat summary judgment in prison officials' favor. While confined at New York's Bare Hill Correctional Facility, prisoner Gregory Gayle filed a grievance stating he heard prison staff praising the guard who had used a ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 34
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Ap-peals joined eight other U.S. Courts of Appeals in holding that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) mandates, under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), that administrative remedies must be exhausted prior to a prisoner filing suit about prison conditions under any federal law.
Gregory McKinney, ...
Chief Medical Officer Liable On
Medical Policy Decisions
by John E. Dannenberg
The Second Circuit US Court of Ap-peals held that a prisoner's complaint regarding a painful chronic medical complication that developed at the site of a knife wound raised genuine issues of material fact sufficient to defeat prison officials' ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 35
In the January, 2003, issue of PLN we reported Flint Ex Rel Flint v. Kentucky Department of Corrections, 270 F.3d 340 (6th Cir. 2001) where the court held that Kentucky prison officials and employees of Correctional Industries were not entitled to qualified immunity for failing to protect prisoner Robert Flint, ...
Retaliation Claim Satisfied by Existence
of Major Misconduct Citation
by John E. Dannenberg
The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals held that the "substantial or motivating factor" element required satisfying a Michigan prisoner's protected speech First Amendment retaliation claim was satisfied by the existence of a major misconduct charge.
Michigan ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 36
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sec-ond Circuit reversed and remanded a district court's dismissal of a New York prisoner's lawsuit which complained of second-hand tobacco smoke.
Samuel Davis, a non-smoker, had been a prisoner at New York's Attica Correctional Facility since 1993. He had repeatedly complained of dizziness, ...
No Jurisdiction for Interlocutory Appeal Where
Evidence Is Disputed in Failure to Protect Suit
by John E. Dannenberg
The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Ap-peals held that in a prisoner's Eighth Amendment claim for damages arising from an attack by another prisoner, jurisdiction did not lie for the appellate court ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 37
Inquiry Required Before Dismissal for Failure
to Pay Partial Filing Fee
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held a district court must inquire into why a prisoner failed to pay an initial partial filing fee as ordered by the Court before entering dismissal. Georgia prisoner Charles D. Wilson was ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 38
Warrantless Police Search of Prisoners Cell Upheld;
Damages Awarded For Retaliation
The Second Circuit court of appeals has upheld the warrantless search of a prisoner's cell by guards acting for police detectives. $401 in damages was awarded for guard retaliation for the prisoner's exercise of his right to remain silent. ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 38
No Appeal Bond Required for
Indigent Colorado Litigants
The Colorado Supreme Court has held that a state district court may not condition an indigent prisoner's appeal on the posting of an appeal bond.
Thomas E. Rodden, a Colorado prisoner in the State's Supermax had legal papers and other person effects ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 38
A federal court in Florida held that a provision of the Prison Litigation reform Act (PLRA) automatically staying enforcement of prospective relief under consent decrees applies only to prospective relief engendered within the consent decree, and not to the entire decree. Additionally, the court held that attorneys fees are not ...
Loss Of Good Time For Kansas SATP Refusal Upheld
by Bob Williams
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that even when loss of good time credits are the consequences of refusal to comply with the core requirements of Kansas' Sexual Abuse Treatment Program (SATP), there is still no ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 40
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld an award of $106,877.74 in attorney fees for work done to enforce a consent decree issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The case was a long running class action challenging prison conditions at ...
by David M. Reutter
In continuing its enforcement of an "Education Plan" for the Rikers Island Academies, a New York federal district court has made modifications to the Plan because it is "deficient in many respects." PLN previously reported upon the previous ruling in this case. See PLN November 2000. ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 41
The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a prisoner's conviction for supplying contraband, finding that there was insufficient evidence to sustain the conviction.
Jose Hernandez, a prisoner at the Umatilla County jail, was found in possession of a powdery substance which was later determined to be the prescription antidepressant, Doxepin, which ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 41
A U.S. District Court in Oregon found a federal prisoner was eligible for participation in a drug treatment program and a one-year sentence reduction upon successful completion of that program.
Martin Kuna, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan, Oregon, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 42
Afghanistan: On October 10, 2003, 41 prisoners tunneled out of the Khandahar jail through a 30 foot tunnel. Some, but not all, the prisoners were members of the Taliban. Taliban commander Mullah Sabir told media that the group, which is fighting the American occupation of the country, paid prison officials ...
Loaded on
May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 43
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's FRCP 12(c) dismissal of a prisoner's action stemming from a failure to provide sex offender treatment. The court held that the unique statutory scheme at issue created a liberty interest in treatment, for purposes of both procedural and substantive due ...
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied qualified immunity to federal prison officials for a transsexual strip search conducted in front of numerous spectators.
Dee Farmer, a prisoner in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at FCI Englewood, Colorado, is a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual suffering from gender dysphoria. Farmer ...
