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A transgender lady is suing the Metropolis of New York for $22 million after she was positioned in a Rikers Island male detention heart, the place she was allegedly assaulted and harassed.
Ali Miles, who goes by Dylan, was held at Rikers Island from June 14, 2022, to July of the identical 12 months. She was later transferred to Arizona.
Miles was charged with a slew of crimes in June 2022, together with felony-level stalking, making a false report of a criminal offense and aggravated harassment.
Miles is suing the New York Metropolis Division of Correction, the New York Metropolis Well being and Hospitals Company and a handful of people for the therapy she acquired within the jail, which allegedly included rape, bodily assault and harassment.
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The Rikers Island jail complicated stands with the Manhattan skyline within the background, in New York Metropolis. (AP Photograph/File)
The lawsuit references the Jail Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003, which seeks to mitigate and eradicate rape incidents in correctional services.
The lawsuit doc, which was filed in August 2023 and obtained by Fox Information Digital on Saturday, establishes that Miles was born a organic man, however identifies as a transgender lady.
“Miles wears ladies’s clothes and in all look expresses as an individual of the feminine gender,” the lawsuit states.
In accordance with the lawsuit, Miles was “positioned in a males’s housing unit regardless of her objections, courtroom orders, and her requests to be housed with ladies.” Miles’ lawyer additionally claims that the defendants “delayed and denied her entry to healthcare.”
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New York Metropolis Division of Correction officer at Rikers Island. (James Keivom/New York Day by day Information/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photos/File)
“[Miles] was raped/sodomized on two (2) separate events by the identical male inmate, was assaulted and battered by the identical male assailant inflicting fractured ribs, and suffered everlasting blindness as the results of being doused within the face with chemical compounds,” the doc says. “All of this brought about her painful and longlasting hurt.
“Defendants’ illegal conduct was a direct results of [Rikers’] pervasive, practices, and customs of discrimination, deliberate indifference, towards transgender folks.”
Miles’ lawyer additionally argued that New York authorities “ignored her repeated pleas for assist and for defense from the threats and sexual victimization to which that they had uncovered her.”
Aerial view of Rikers Island. (Photograph by Todd Maisel/NY Day by day Information Archive through Getty Photos)
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In accordance with the lawsuit, a corrections officer informed Miles that “We do not do the trans factor right here” — which the lawsuit argues is a violation of civil rights regulation.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the New York Metropolis Division of Correction and the New York Metropolis Well being and Hospitals Company for remark.
