A gender identity committee will decide where a transgender woman with an extensive criminal record will be housed after she was sentenced this week to four years in prison on felony retail theft, battery and violation of probation charges, authorities said. Maribel Torres, identified in court records as Jose Torres, was sentenced Tuesday at the Skokie courthouse to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to incidents in the women’s departments of stores in Skokie and Deerfield.

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