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A transgender woman has sued The City of New York in the amount of $22 million. She was held at a male detention facility on Rikers Island, where she was allegedly harassed and assaulted.
Ali Miles (also known as Dylan) was detained at Rikers from June 14 to July 2022. Later, she was transferred from Arizona to Arizona.
Miles was accused of a number of crimes, including stalking at the felony level, false reporting of a crime, and aggravated harassing.
Miles has filed a lawsuit against the New York City Department of Corrections, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and several individuals over the treatment that she received while in prison. This included, allegedly, rapes, physical assaults and harassment.
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(AP Photo/File) The Rikers island jail complex with Manhattan in the background in New York City. (AP Photo/File)
The lawsuit refers to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA), which seeks mitigation and eradication of rape incidents within correctional facilities.
The lawsuit, filed in August 2023, and obtained on Saturday by Fox News Digital, establishes Miles’s birth as a man biologically, but his identification as a woman transgender.
The lawsuit claims that “Miles is dressed in women’s clothes and appears to be a woman.”
According to the lawsuit Miles “was placed in a male housing unit despite [her] objections, her court orders, and requests to be accommodated with women.” Miles’ lawyer also claims that defendants “delayed or denied her access to health care.”
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New York City Department of Corrections officer at Rikers island. James Keivom/New York Daily News/Tribunal News Service via Getty Images/File
The document states that “[Miles] suffered from permanent blindness after being doused with chemicals in her face.” All of this has caused her pain and lasting harm.
“Defendants’ illegal conduct was a result of Rikers’] widespread practices and customs, of discrimination against transgender individuals, as well as deliberate indifference.”
Miles’ attorney also claimed that New York authorities ignored her “repeated pleas for assistance and protection from threats and sexual victimization which they had exposed [her] to.”
Aerial View of Rikers Island. Photo by Todd Maisel/NY Daily News Archive through Getty Images.
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According to the lawsuit filed by Miles, a corrections officers told him that “We don’t do the transthing here”. The lawsuit claims this is a violation civil rights law.
Fox News Digital contacted the New York City Department of Correction and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to get their comments.