Layleen Polanco, a trans woman, died in solitary confinement because jail officials didn’t want her on a women’s ward

Another day, another grim development in the case of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, a trans woman whose death in a New York City jail has unfolded into a drawn-out quest for justice. According to a new report compiled by New York City’s Board of Correction, the city’s jail oversight agency, Polanco, 27, was...