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Box 167

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Correspondence and notes, 1979-1980

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the File: In this case, the ACLU represented Franklin Torrey, a 21 year old male transgender prisoner who was raped by other male prisoners while en route to court in Oakland on the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center (where Torrey was an inmate) bus. The Santa Rita facility is chiefly used "for the pretrial detention of persons accused of felonies and misdemeanors and also for the incarceration of misdemeanants." Torrey was in prison for petty theft. There were prison guards present while the rape took...
Dates: 1979-1980