News.BostonHerald.com – By Associated Press
The state’s new correction commissioner said he plans to re-examine the case of a convicted killer suing for a state-financed sex-change operation.
Prison officials have opposed Michelle Kosilek’s demand for the surgery, saying it could make the transgender inmate a target for sexual assault by other inmates. But Commissioner Harold Clarke, appointed last fall, said yesterday he has not decided yet whether to continue to fight Kosilek’s request.
“I need to take a look at the information presented before I arrived, and with a fresh set of eyes, closely scrutinize it,” Clarke said after a hearing in the case.