Family, friends and civil rights activists gather for justice rally in lower Manhattan, demanding answers in wake of transgender woman's death while in prison.
Family, friends and civil rights activists gathered for a justice rally in lower Manhattan on Monday, demanding answers in the wake of a transgender woman's death while in prison.
Officials with the New York Department of Correction have not released a possible cause of death, but said it was"not the result of violence or foul play." She was being held in the jail’s Rose M. Singer Center, a female unit that just recently started housing transgender women, but her family said she suffered from an acute medical condition and should have been under officer supervision.
"The family demands answers and we are entitled to them," the statement said."The city failed to protect Layleen and now it’s trying to sweep her death under the rug. We will not allow it." "We have some serious questions about why she was being housed in solitary with no one monitoring her when she had these acute medical issues that the corrections department knew about," he added.
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