A transgender woman who was only named as "Mary" had told how she was "beaten and raped" 2,000 times during her four-year prison sentence for stealing a car in the 1990's.
Mary said the moment she arrived in her holding cell, news spread fast that she was a transgender. Within minutes of arriving at her cell, she was approached by men. She was preyed on and raped once a day, sometimes more -- and if she didn't she would be beaten.
Mary said her ordeal began before she had even been placed in her cell when she was strip searched.
According to Mary, "It was rape and yes I was flogged and bashed to the point wher I knew I had to do it inorder to survive, but survival was basically for other prisoner's pleasure."
Mary described her experience in prison as "hell on Earth" and claimed that it was as if she had died and this was her punishment.
The transgender prisoner had breasts but had not yet had gender reassignment surgery when she was in jailed. During her jail term, in which she was moved to several prisons, she was forced to have her long hair cut off and also denied her hormone pills, and began to grow facial hair again.
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