Dee Deirdre Farmer, previously freed from prison last year, will be incarcerated for 28 months for faking her own death to avoid prosecution when she faced new criminal charges. The Maryland Division of Corrections, however, has no housing policy for trans inmates and will not say where Farmer is being held (somewhere at the Maryland Division of Correction) while they determine where she will be permanently placed. You may remember Farmer’s suit against federal prison officials:

    In a landmark case, Farmer sued federal prison officials over a 1989 rape that occurred about a week after Farmer entered a federal maximum-security prison for men in Terre Haute, Ind. Farmer had arrived with male sex organs and breast implants, after undergoing estrogen therapy.
    The lawsuit claimed the government had violated Farmer’s constitutional right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment by ignoring the risk that a feminine-appearing inmate would be raped by other prisoners.
    The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1994 said that prison officials can sometimes be held liable for inmate assaults revived Farmer’s lawsuit, which had been dismissed by lower courts. After the Supreme Court decision, however, she lost the case at trial.