Category: Prison Litigation

Michelle Lynne Kosilek (USA)

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Michelle Lynne Kosilek, a 68-year-old man that identifies as a woman, recently filed suit against the Massachusetts Correction Commissioner to…

Keohane V. Jones: Reiyn Keohane (USA) @ACLU

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Reiyn Keohane is a 24-year-old man that identifies as a woman. He is currently serving a 15-year sentence in a…

Chelsea (Bradley) Manning (USA)

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Bradley Manning, who identifies as a transgender woman named Chelsea, is set to be released from prison next week as…

Andrew Burns (Scotland)

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Three female prison officers at HM Prison Glenochil in Scotland are refusing to do intimate body checks of Andrew Burns,…

Levy v. Wexford Health Sources (USA)

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El Soudani El Wahhabi, a man who identifies as a woman known as Shawnte Anne Levy (“Levy”), has filed a…

Ricky Chaperon/Synthia Kavanagh (Canada)

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In 2003, the Federal Court of Canada ruled in this decision that a male may be moved to a women’s prison…

Tate v. Wexford Health Source (USA)

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Carl Tate, a male who identifies as a woman, who is currently an inmate at Centralia Correctional Center (“Centralia”), has filed…

Hart v. Gusman (USA)

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Karen Wells Roby, a United States Magistrate Judge, has granted Mark Hart’s Motion for Leave to File First Amended Complaint,…

Jones v. Doe (USA)

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Michael A. Jones, who provides an alias of Latrina Marie Lopez, is an Interstate Corrections Compact (“ICC”) inmate who was…