Cenk Uygur
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Big Win For Transgendered Inmates In San Francisco
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September 12, 2015
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6:06Now PlayingInmates in San Francisco will now be housed by their gender identity. Transgender individuals will now be placed in prisons or jails with men and women that they identify with. As a first step the program will allow transgender women in men’s prisons to attend certain services and classes at women’s prisons. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (The Point), Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!), and Wes Clark Jr. hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Transgender women inmates now housed in a special wing of a men's jail in San Francisco will soon be moved into the city detention facility for women under a new policy announced on Thursday to house all inmates based on their gender identity.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said in a statement that the new policy sets San Francisco apart from most U.S. jails and prisons, resulting from two years of collaboration of his department with transgender and human rights groups.
"The high majority of municipal jails and prisons in this country make invisible, suppress or isolate inmates who are transgender," Mirkarimi said. "Since the transgender population is marginalized on the streets of America, consider how that marginalization is magnified inside prisons and jails."
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