{"id":1825544,"date":"2023-01-26T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825544"},"modified":"2023-01-26T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:20:37","slug":"proposed-new-york-law-could-put-criminally-insane-male-inmates-in-womens-prisons-advocates-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-new-york-law-could-put-criminally-insane-male-inmates-in-womens-prisons-advocates-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed New York Law Could Put Criminally Insane Male Inmates In Women\u2019s Prisons, Advocates Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fproposed-new-york-law-could-put-criminally-insane-male-inmates-in-womens-prisons-advocates-fear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A proposed law in New York could allow mentally ill male inmates to assume a non-male identity and be granted access to women\u2019s prisons, according to a women\u2019s advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the New York Senate added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2023\/S2860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amendment<\/a> Senate Bill 2860, also known as The \u201cgender identity respect, dignity and safety act,\u201d This would allow male prisoners to be moved into a correctional facility, or another institution that is compatible with their self-determined needs. \u201cgender identity.\u201d According to the women\u2019s advocacy group, these \u201cother institutions\u201d The likely additions to the bill include <a href=\"https:\/\/omh.ny.gov\/omhweb\/forensic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psychiatric facilities<\/a> For criminally insane or high-risk sex offenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bill expands beyond correctional facilities to extend to \u2018other institutions\u2019 housing incarcerated individuals,\u201d Amanda Stulman is the USA director for Keep Prisons Single Sex.<a href=\"https:\/\/usa.kpssinfo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPSS<\/a>). \u201cPresumably, this would include forensic mental health facilities. So, this New York Senate Bill would presumptively house mentally ill incarcerated men with mentally ill women.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>In criminal law, when individuals are found \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/not_guilty_by_reason_of_insanity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not guilty by reason of \u00a0insanity<\/a>,\u201d They are required to receive psychiatric treatment at a mental institution. New York State offers several maximum security psychiatric facilities to criminals in addition to 44 prisons. <a href=\"https:\/\/omh.ny.gov\/omhweb\/forensic\/bisot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two locations<\/a> High-risk sex offenders are treated by these centers. Individuals may choose to live at Oakview, Marcy, New York. It houses 303 residents. Bridgeview, Ogdensburg houses 92. \u201cdeemed as high risk to sexually offend and in need of intensive treatment while serving prison sentences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 2860 would allow anyone to be eligible for the Senate Bill 2860. \u201cself-identifies\u201d Not only are transgenders considered transgender, they can also be called transgender. \u201cgender nonconforming,\u201d \u201cnonbinary\u201d To be able to identify or have an intersex condition. \u201cpresumptively\u201d to be moved into a facility that has the opposite sex. The bill states that inmates will not be required to show or provide documentation to prove their sexual orientation. \u201cgender identity\u201d They existed before being incarcerated, and their records can be kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>The new bill, in addition to housing placements, would grant prisoners state-sponsored access cross-sex hormones to confirm their identity and allow them to have surgeries to do so. \u201cgender identity,\u201d But women also have the right not to use hormones, or any other type of surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs with the laws and policies of many other jurisdictions, the provisions of this proposed New York Bill permit any inmate, at any time, making no modifications to their body or presentation, to claim a \u2018gender identity\u2019 which requires a correctional system to place them in cross-sex housing,\u201d The Daily Wire interviewed Stulman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey cannot be challenged or denied on the basis of lack of sincerity or past crimes, no matter how much their criminal history is one directed at women,\u201d She continued.<\/p>\n<p>Correctional staff and officers are required to address inmates by their new names and pronouns. \u201ccommissary items, clothing, personal property, and programming and educational materials consistent with gender identity.\u201d Female corrections officers will also be allowed to search male prisoners. Inmates can sue the state for violating these conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the bill would limit use \u201cinvoluntary protective custody,\u201d A safeguarding practice that keeps transgender male inmates separated from the female population. It is deemed to be a safeguarding measure. \u201charmful\u201d to the male inmates\u2019 wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bill, a denial of placement into the women\u2019s ward shall not be based on \u201cdiscriminatory reasons\u201d They may not like their sexual characteristics or complain about being housed in a male-dominated environment. If they are denied placement, however, they may be refused. \u201cclear and convincing evidence\u201d They \u201cpresent a current danger of committing gender-based violence against others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill also included a time restriction, which would require prison officials within two days to determine whether a prisoner is placed. Stulman warned that this would pose serious dangers to women as it takes too long to do a thorough mental health assessment and risk assessment on male inmates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncarcerated women are rightly petrified while state legislators imagine themselves as civil rights heroes,\u201d The Daily Wire interviewed Stulman. \u201cBut this is no \u2018civil rights\u2019 movement. There is no \u2018right\u2019 for male inmates, however they identify, to be incarcerated with women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch an idea is contrary to decades of American and international jurisprudence, including the United Nations\u2019 Mandela Rules, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. Rule 11(a) provides: \u2018Men and women shall so far as possible be detained in separate institutions; in an institution which receives both men and women, the whole of the premises allocated to women shall be entirely separate,\u2019\u201d She continued.<\/p>\n<p>Stulman\u2019s organization, Keep Prisons Single Sex (KPSS), which has both United Kingdom and United States representation, campaigns for single-sex accommodation within the prison system and access to data on male inmates in women\u2019s facilities. KPSS wrote the following: <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.kpssinfo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KPSS-Submission-to-New-York-Senate-on-Bill-2860.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to the bill\u2019s sponsors and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/committees\/crime-victims-crime-and-correction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committee<\/a> Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, to highlight their concerns about the new bill and to cite past instances of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed law in New York could allow mentally ill male inmates to assume a non-male identity and be granted access to women\u2019s prisons, according to a women\u2019s advocacy group. Yesterday, the New York Senate added an amendment to Senate Bill 2860, euphemistically called the \u201cgender identity respect, dignity and safety act,\u201d that would allow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1489,"featured_media":1825547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4445,8197,5466,5390,10570,6547,7593,9646,4487,4694,3859],"class_list":["post-1825544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-advocates","tag-criminally","tag-fear","tag-inmates","tag-insane","tag-law","tag-male","tag-prisons","tag-proposed","tag-womens","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}