SFGate.com – Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
They were accused of failing to protect prisoner from rape
A San Francisco civil jury ruled Thursday in favor of six Folsom State Prison workers accused of failing to protect a transgender inmate from being raped by a cellmate.
The jury deadlocked on a seventh employee, a sergeant, causing a mistrial in his case.
Alexis Giraldo, 30, was born a man but takes hormones to feminize her appearance. Convicted of burglary in 2005, she ended up in Folsom, which like other state prisons does not have policies on housing transgender inmates.
Giraldo said she was raped on March 12, 2006, by her cellmate. Two days earlier, she told a clinical social worker that the cellmate was abusive and had become sexually demanding, according to the social worker’s notes.