San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood is calling for a hearing into a private prison corporation that operates a local reentry facility at the center of a dispute between transgender rights activists and the corporation after the death of one of its residents.
Mahmood said Tuesday he wants to get to the bottom of the alleged “negligence and civil rights violations” at the 111 Taylor St. facility, the site of a historic 1966 riot in response to police violence against trans people.
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