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Nikita Dragun was launched from jail on Wednesday, with a consultant from the Miami-Dade County jail system denying that the transgender influencer was ever positioned in a males’s unit.
The 26-year-old was booked on Monday after allegedly “inflicting a disturbance” at a lodge in South Seashore.
Following her launch on Wednesday, a consultant for Dragun stated Miami-Dade County made an “extraordinarily disturbing and harmful” mistake by placing her in a males’s jail unit.
“The state of affairs with Nikita, who's legally feminine, being positioned in a males’s unit of a Florida jail is extraordinarily disturbing and harmful,” Dragun rep Jack Ketsoyan stated in an announcement to The Day by day Beast. “This resolution made by the Miami-Dade County Corrections Division instantly violates their protocol, which mandates that transgender inmates are labeled and housed primarily based on security wants and gender id.”
However the Miami-Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation Division is now pushing again on that declare, telling The Day by day Beast that Dragun was by no means really housed with males.
“All inmates present process our consumption course of stay in an open seating (open reserving) space, within the presence of correctional workers,” public info officer Juan Diasgranados stated through e mail on Thursday. “Moreover, inmate Dragun was positioned in a holding cell by herself on account of her excessive profile standing earlier than being launched, and she or he was escorted by an LGBTQ officer throughout her time on the corrections facility.”
“Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Division (MDCR) is dedicated to defending the rights of the transgender neighborhood and of all LGBTQ individuals,” Diasgranados continued. “MDCR has procedures in place for the suitable consumption, housing, and medical wants of transgender inmates, and we're dedicated to making sure that every one inmates in our custody, together with transgender individuals, are handled appropriately all through our consumption, classification and placement course of.”
Dragun was arrested at The Goodtime Resort on Monday afternoon, the place lodge safety informed officers that Dragun had been “inflicting a disturbance for an extended time period and was strolling across the pool space unclothed.” In keeping with a police report obtained by The Day by day Beast, officers heard the 26-year-old blasting music from her room. She opened the door, and after a short verbal back-and-forth, police say she swung round an open water bottle that ended up hitting a safety guard and an officer.
Dragun was charged with felony battery in opposition to an officer, misdemeanor battery, and misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
The police report alternates between describing her as an “Asian feminine” and utilizing he/him pronouns.
On Wednesday, footage of Dragun showing remotely earlier than a Miami-Dade choose started circulating on social media. Within the video, Dragun wears an orange jumpsuit and appears on the digital camera as she asks the choose, “Do I've to remain right here within the males’s unit, nonetheless?”
The choose solutions that she doesn’t “make the foundations up there” earlier than showing to punt the difficulty again to the jail.
Dragun boasts 3.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 9 million followers on Instagram. She starred on this 12 months’s Hype Home actuality collection on Netflix.