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New York City will pay $5.9 million to settle suit after transgender woman’s death
It’s the largest settlement New York City has ever paid in a case involving a prisoner’s death.
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17 New York guards disciplined for letting a trans prisoner choke to death on her own vomit
A psychiatrist said that it was risky to put 27-year-old trans inmate Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco into a cell on her own. Guards did it anyway.
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New York City prison guards laughed & didn’t help as a transgender woman died in her cell
“It was horrifying for the family to see this footage,” said David Shanies, the lawyer representing the inmate’s family. “They were completely unprepared for what they saw. They all broke into hysterical crying.”
