A lesser plea

Jezebel has a sympathetic conversation with Synthia China Blast, or as they call him, “Trans Inmate Synthia China Blast.”

Synthia China Blast is a Latina trans woman who, according to her family, has been in involuntary protective custody (IPC), a glorified form of solitary confinement, for almost 20 years. When we spoke, Synthia was incarcerated at Sullivan Correctional Facility, a men’s prison about two hours north of New York City.

Last August, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) launched a petition to pressure New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to remove Blast from isolation. In a video released to promote the campaign, Laverne Cox read aloud a letter written by Blast, in which she names the abuses she’s experienced on the inside: spending 23 to 24 hours per day in solitary, receiving insufficient medical treatment, and enduring violence at the hands of guards.

What’s he in prison for?

Shhhhh that’s a rude question.

Women Are Human wrote about him in 2018:

Latin Kings gang member Synthia China Blast (born Luis Morales) held captive, repeatedly raped and brutally tortured Ebony Nicole Williams, a 13-year-old girl from Harlem, a court found.

Discovering that little Ebony was still alive after Mr Blast had stabbed her repeatedly, fellow gang member Carlos Franco broke the child’s neck. The two men were so brutal that their acts of torture nearly decapitated the girl.

While he was dressed in a skirt, 22-year-old Mr Blast carried and disposed of the young girl’s mutilated body in a Bronx underpass, and set the body on fire.

Mr Blast and Mr Franco bragged about the crime to friends. According to acquaintances, the two Latino men were openly anti-black, and had targeted the child for sexual torture and murder not only because of her sex, but her skin color, as well.

Jezebel indignantly tells us Blast was never convicted of murder, but neglects to mention the rapes and stabbings and torture. Very left-wing, much progressive.

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