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Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C.had brought the lawsuit days earlier on behalf of Ms. Hinton, a suspected burglar, after learning she was being jailed in a housing unit for men. Currently, inmates in the custody of the D.C. Department of Correction are jailed by default in a men’s or women’s unit based on whether they have male or female genitals, respectively, the suit says. Existing policy allows for inmates to go before the D.C. corrections department’s Transgender Housing Committee and request it recommend to the warden they are jailed by gender identity, not a...

A transgender woman is suing D.C. Jail for keeping her in the men’s detention unit despite her identifying as female.

“There are people being held in cages — you know, in cells for 23 hours a day — and I think they have a right to know when they’re going to have their day in court,” defense lawyer Carrie Weletz, who is representing Mr. Sharps in an appeal, told The Washington Times. The 23-hour cell confinement is part of the D.C. Jail’s effort to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. “With that hour [outside the cell], they can choose things, right?” Ms. Weletz said. “My clients frequently choose not to shower because that’s their time of the day to stand in line to get a phone call wit...

Terms of getting himself involved in some potential obstruction charges because you know, there are things, giuliani says things all the time and it's a little bit hard to take him seriously. but the timing of this to say to mention the possibility of pardons at the end of this right when manafort has been sent to jail, it's clearly him sending -- i won't even say a signal. it's him shouting across the room, hang in there. a pardon is coming down the road. i understand there's all sorts of legal and constitutional arguments about the president has the right to pardon. but the president's lawye...

Incarcerating you that would deter from you committing future crimes. she said at one point, this isn't middle school, i can't just take your cell phone. so she sent him to jail. we've made attempts to try to figure out where he is but a law enforcement official said normally someone would be sent to the dc jail. that is a notoriously bad place. it has a roach and rat problem. it houses murderers and rapists, it would be increditable to think of this high flying politico known for $7,000 suits to spend the night in the washington, d.c. jail. >> let me follow on that to explain the procedure fo...