Pichardo

Woman Wrongly Classified as Man by Fla. Jailers Files $5M Lawsuit

A Dominican woman wrongly classified as a man and held with male inmates for 10 hours in a Miami prison three years ago has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Fior Pichardo de Veloz was arrested at a Miami airport in November of 2013 on what lawyers say was a decades-old drug charge that was eventually dismissed. She was initially booked as a female but medical staff reclassified her as a male …