Va. women's prison segregated lesbians, others

Source: AP/Yahoo

TROY, Va. (AP) — For more than a year, Virginia's largest women's prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers derisively dubbed the "butch wing," prisoners and guards say.

Dozens were moved in an attempt to split up relationships and curb illegal sexual activity at the 1,200-inmate Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, though some straight women were sent to the wing strictly because of their appearance, the inmates and corrections officers said.

Civil rights advocates called the moves unconstitutional punishment for "looking gay." The warden denied that any housing decisions were made based on looks or sexual orientation, and said doing so would be discriminatory. The practice was stopped recently after the Associated Press began questioning it, according to several inmates and one current employee.

Two current guards and one of their former co-workers said targeting masculine-looking inmates was a deliberate strategy by a building manager. Numerous inmates said in letters and interviews that they felt humiliated and stigmatized when guards took them to the separate wing — also referred to by prisoners and guards as the "little boys wing," "locker room wing" or "studs wing."

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Big girl, loose clothes and a 'short top, tight sides'.

Idiots.

I think the world is ruled by people who are mostly stuck at 8th grade level socially.

As a pretty tall and wearer of loose fitting clothing lesbian I might have ended up there. So assuming that there was some correct gaydar going on, how does putting the lesbians together stop relationships? Forgive me, I know this is shallow and not the point.

Never works.

I can just hear them laffin' and laffin' and laffin'

"Oh, please, please Mr. Warden. DON'T throw me in that "butch wing." That is the worst possible punishment you could give me!"

apologies to Joel Chandler Harris

Really? Where is this sushi bar?

:P

So many lesbians walk into a sushi bar ...

nauseating some of us, you are infringing a copyright.

When you become an admin, THEN you can tell me what to do. If you have a problem with me, tell them. I'll listen to them, but I don't take orders from you.

posts by Republicans.

As a poster, I have every right to tell you how I feel about your posts. Next time, though, I'll simply alert on the copyright infringement and an admin will delete your copy and paste from another message board. So, your illegal post will be deleted without explanation. I could have done that this time, but, I figured that by telling you, you'll know better next time. Or not. Depends upon how quickly you learn, I guess.

Just waltz into GD or GD/P on any given night.

There's plenty of it here, we don't need to C/P from Freeptown.

copying and pasting is just dumb. So is violating copyright law.

that Japanese food that turns a woman into a lesbian!

And almost all police women are lesbians, too? Who knew?

Yep. And wardens, too.

And then they put all the lesbians together.

:crazy:

How butch is too butch? How big is too big? And what if a woman doesn't consider herself butch, but just got her hair cut because who the hell cares what their hair looks like in jail? How many of these women were shocked to be labeled one or the other by whoever is making these decisions?