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California Pays $10,000 to Settle Sex Abuse Suit Brought by Transgender Prisoner
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2012, page 43
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has entered into a settlement agreement with former state prisoner Alexis Giraldo, paying her $10,000 in exchange for a voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit she filed in San Francisco Superior Court in 2007.
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Transgender,
Failure to Protect (Transgender).
Location:
California.
In her suit, Giraldo, a male-to-female transgender prisoner, claimed ...
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