Transgender Inmate Gets Mammogram

Massachusetts - Corrections officials, already under fire for a transgender inmate’s taxpayer-funded hormone treatments, now face criticism for providing the former Robert Kosilek with a mammogram, MyFoxBoston.com reports. Kosilek was convicted of murdering his wife and later sued in prison to change his name to Michelle Kosilek. Documents obtained by the TV station show that Kosilek was transported this week to a Boston hospital to receive a routine mammogram....More

Oldest Death Row Inmate in U.S. Dies

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Obese Texas inmate hides gun in his flabs of fat

HOUSTON – An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh.

Twenty-five-year-old George Vera was charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility after he told a guard at the Harris County Jail about the unloaded 9mm pistol. The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that Vera was originally arrested on charges of selling illegal copies of compact discs.

The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon in his rolls of skin. Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break at the county jail.

Information from: Houston Chronicle, http://www.houstonchronicle.com