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Is A Georgia Prison Trying To Cover Up The Rape Of A Transgender Woman? from BuzzFeed, 12/16/14

Friday, December 19, 2014

This is not the first suit of its kind: Transgender inmates all over the country have long alleged systemic mistreatment. But the extent to which this particular prison neglected widely accepted procedures for housing transgender inmates, allegedly ignored Green’s pleas for help, and then misplaced evidence after her alleged attack — all detailed here for the first time — reveal just how little circumstances have changed for transgender inmates today, 11 years after the passage of a federal anti-prison rape law that was supposed to help protect them.

Read more at: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/georgia-prison-rape-zahara-green#.wqBOm9rjV