Transgender robber who wanted back in prison gets 6 years
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A transgender woman who robbed a bank in an attempt to be sent back to prison expressed a change in heart, and a sympathetic judge sentenced her Wednesday to six years in a federal women’s prison, far less than the 20 years she could have gotten.
Linda Thompson, 59, told the courtroom that whatever sentence U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal handed down would be fine with her, but she hoped yet to get a commercial driver’s license and land a job driving a truck.
“No one really wants you to die in prison,” Freudenthal said. “There’s more out there than hanging out in custody.”
Thompson apologized to a teller at the U.S. Bank branch in Cheyenne she robbed in July. The teller and other bank employees sitting in the audience declined to address the court.