Come January 1 how California houses transgender inmates and treats LGBTQ youth sex offenders will change due to the enactment of two controversial bills lawmakers adopted in 2020. The impacts of the legislation, however, will not be felt immediately.
As of Friday incarcerated transgender individuals will be able to ask for a transfer to a state prison or detention center that matches with their gender identity. Thus, a trans woman will be able to petition state prison officials to be housed in a female prison.
It is due to Governor Gavin Newsom signing Senate Bill 132, authored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco). Wiener, public safety officials, and LGBTQ advocates spent several years trying to pass what was dubbed the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act.
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Tuesday evening, December 29, 2020
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COVID-19 Cases Up After Holiday Lull
The state saw another spike in COVID-19 cases Tuesday following a slowdown in testing over the holiday. Health officials reported 2,736 news cases and 16 deaths including a Salt Lake County resident younger than 45-years-old. About a quarter of all tests come back positive, which suggests community transmission remains high. The state has also been vaccinating an average of about 1,300 people a day since the state received its first doses earlier this month. More than 20,000 people have been vaccinated so far.
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Nanon Williams was arrested in 1992 at age 17 for capital murder and spent years on death row. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled people under 18 could not be sentenced to death. His sentence, along with 70 others, was commuted to life and he is still fighting to prove his innocence. He has earned two associate degrees, a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree; he was about to finish his second master’s, when the prison declared no one could earn two masters.
Nanon Williams with his mother, Lee Bolton, when she visited him on death row in 1998.
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