Here’s a story I had that ran over the weekend regarding the challenge that NYS faces in keeping transgender sex offenders in civil confinement:
Vyvenne Jasmyn Ward, 51, has spent almost two decades in prison on rape convictions.
Near the end of her second prison term — this one for raping a woman in a Cortland alleyway — Ward asked for and eventually started getting hormone treatments to transition from a man to a woman.
“After a legal struggle involving a number of complaints … I finally gained both an evaluation and recommendation for the commencement of hormone therapy on July 3, 2015,” she wrote in a recent letter to the Times Union.
But later that month, after her prison sentence was completed, she was committed to the Central New York Psychiatric Center’s sex offender unit. She is being held there indefinitely after a court proceeding found she has a psychological abnormality that puts her at risk of committing another offense. ..Continued..
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