The ACLU-DC and Public Defenders Service for D.C. reached an agreement with the city 10 months after they sued over the gender housing policy at the jail.
The parties reached a settlement Thursday in which the Department of Corrections said that within 60 days it would end shackling for all people held in protective custody who are not in other categories of restrictive housing, with few exceptions.
“No one should face what I had to face at the D.C. Jail,” said Sunday Hinton, a transgender woman at the center of the lawsuit, in a statement.“I’m glad that other trans people at the Jail will be treated with more dignity,” Hinton said. Rachel Cicurel, counsel for Hinton and an attorney with the Public Defender Service, said in a statement that she is “inspired by the courage Ms. Hinton showed in fighting back against the D.C. Department of Corrections, even while she was detained and at their mercy.”Meanwhile, the District is under intense scrutiny for conditions at its aging detention facility.
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