The family of Layleen Polanco, the 27-year-old Afro-Latina trans woman who died while in solitary confinement on Rikers Island last year, will receive $5.9 million from the city of New York, according to a report from local outlet The City.
Polanco, also known as Layleen Xtravaganza from the New York ballroom scene’s House of Xtravaganza, suffered a seizure on June 7, 2019, after being held for two months on a misdemeanor charge because she could not afford $500 cash bail. Dhad been in solitary confinement for nine days when she died.
A more powerful move would be to fire the corrections officers responsible for Polanco’s death, which has not yet happened. “This is just the beginning of justice for my sister, this is not even close to being justice for her,” her sister, Melania Brown, said in a statement.Justice would be holding those people who had something to do with my sister’s death accountable for their actions.
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