Early Release Means the State Won't Have to Pay...

One year away from freedom?
Let this inmate be released today, so she can finance her medical needs outside of the prison budget's limited amount of funding to ensure prisoners in their care have their medical needs properly addressed...

Just let her go. Tomorrow.
"Covid early release for compassionate care."

You can't be using taxpayer funds, from prison or military budgets, to finance these operations. Not when so many other medical needs in prisons are going unmet. Sorry sister. Pay for it yourself.
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Supreme Court Won’t Block Surgery for Transgender Inmate

The prisoner, Adree Edmo, said Idaho’s failure to provide the procedure violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

By Adam Liptak

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a request from Idaho prison officials to block court-ordered sex reassignment surgery for a transgender prisoner.

The court’s brief order, which gave no reasons, let stand a ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, in favor of the prisoner, Adree Edmo, a transgender woman.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. said they would have granted the prison officials’ request for a stay of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling.

Ms. Edmo, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping 15-year-old boy, is scheduled to be released next year. She has been treated for gender dysphoria, the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and that assigned at birth, with hormone therapy and counseling.

A prison psychiatrist, Dr. Scott Eliason, denied her request for surgery notwithstanding two attempts by Ms. Edmo at self-castration. Ms. Edmo sued, saying that the failure to provide the surgery violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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ADDED: I can remember a time when the court-ordered castration would have been considered a cruel and unusual punishment... Good God, how times change, eh?