Death, Sex & Money - A Prison Guard In Transition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Mandi Hauwert thought coming out as a transgender woman while working as a guard at California's San Quentin State Prison would be "insane." She did it anyway.Â
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| 0:00.0 | I was done for. |
| 0:02.0 | I was ready to basically call it, call it quits and die. |
| 0:07.4 | Because at that point, obviously, I didn't imagine coming out as a prison guard. |
| 0:15.5 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:18.9 | Sin's dead, baby. |
| 0:20.1 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:23.7 | Do you know what it is to be a lover? |
| 0:25.8 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:27.6 | The contract is null and boy in the event of marital infidelity. |
| 0:30.5 | You fuck around, she gets rich. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:36.2 | I met Mandy Howard at her home in Petaluma, California. |
| 0:39.9 | It's a bedroom community north of San Francisco. |
| 0:42.4 | It was a Thursday, her day off of work. |
| 0:44.6 | Hi. |
| 0:45.3 | How you doing, Mandy? |
| 0:46.1 | She showed me around the split-level house that she shares with three dogs, two cats, |
| 0:50.4 | and four roommates. |
| 0:52.3 | We have our landlady, and we have another trans woman and a couple |
| 0:57.7 | lives downstairs. How much is your rent here, if you mind? $700. That's it. That is a deal in this |
| 1:04.7 | area of the country. And it's a great house. My parents were so happy when they saw that I was living here. |
| 1:09.3 | I tried to get an apartment before and I kept getting turned, even after they told me I made enough money to get in. |
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