If you are a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, well, sorry, you cannot force the taxpayers to cough up the gigantic bill for the sex change operation you declined to pay for yourself before you went to prison. The Boston Globe has the story.
The en banc First Circuit reversed a district judge who would have forced the government to pony up for this, and today the SCOTUS denied cert. No dissents noted.
I'm assuming those who relentlessly decry the high cost of incarceration will applaud today's result.
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