I'm being told that a 27 year old black transgender woman is currently being incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections (1/?)
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in a men's prison despite having lived as a girl from a young age. She is on hormone treatment as we speak. (2/?)
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As a result of her confinement she has been physically and sexually assaulted multiple times by both other inmates and staff. (3/?)
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Despite her attorneys requests, IDOC has denied her transfer to a women's facility in violation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. (4/?)
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The details of abuse and assault in this case are heinous. If IDOC doesn't rectify this I will continue to speak on until they do. (5/?)
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Please contact the Department of Corrections at (217) 558-2200 x 2008 and ask that they allow Strawberry Hampton (6/?)
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(housed at Dixon Correctional Center) to be allowed to transfer to a women's facility. (7/?)
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This makes me sick. I don't want her in jail trust me but I hope she's isolated.
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