On Friday, June 7, Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old Afro-Latinx transgender woman, was found unresponsive in her jail cell on Rikers Island.
, Polanco was arrested by an undercover cop in August 2017 after allegedly agreeing to perform oral sex in exchange for money and for being in possession of a crack pipe. Her case was transferred to Manhattan’s human trafficking court, where she failed to appear on more than one occasion, leading to a warrant for her arrest.
“At the time of her death, Polanco was caught up in the violent bureaucracy of New York’s criminal legal system,” according to a news release from the Anti-Violence Project. “Polanco was being held due to a few missed court dates as part of the services she was mandated to in an alternative-to-incarceration program.”
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