MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail facility — ignoring her pleas to be moved throughout her two-day stay. Transgender activist Ruby Corado was one of many at the time advocating for a change in booking procedures.
”There’s really no guidelines that are in place on how to deal with transgender individuals,” Corado, a member of the D.C. Trans Coalition, said at the time. ”And the bigger [issue] is people are arrested, booked, and then… housed in the wrong section of the jails [where] they just get victimized over and over again.”