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Trans Woman Said She Robbed Bank Because Prison Is Safer Than Street Life

SEEKING SHELTER

Linda Thompson didn’t want to leave the all-women’s correctional facility she spent years trying to get into. So she robbed a teller at gunpoint and asked to be sent back.

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