A transgender inmate has been transferred after impregnating two female inmates at the only women’s prison in New Jersey.
Demi Minor, a biological male who identifies as a trans woman, was sent to the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a state prison with a population of all men except for three transgender inmates between the ages of 18 and 30, and was transferred to a vulnerable housing unit, according to NBC.
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Minor, 27, was housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, New Jersey, the site of “consensual sexual relationships” with two other unidentified prisoners, said Dan Sperrazza, the external affairs executive director for the Department of Corrections, in April. Out of the 800 inmates housed at the prison, 27 identified as transgender.
In 2021, New Jersey put a policy in place that requires state prisons to place inmates by their gender identities. The policy change was part of a lawsuit settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.
The union representing correctional officers at Edna Mahan has criticized the policy change, arguing it would be “detrimental to the general population of female inmates” and bring added stress.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced last July that he intended to shut Edna Mahan‘s doors after a series of “abusive incidents.” Women at Edna Mahan are at “substantial risk of sexual abuse” due to “systemic” failures that work to “discourage prisoners” from reporting such abuse, the Justice Department alleged in 2020.
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The DOJ issued a list of remedial measures for the prison to address and concluded there was “reasonable cause” to allege Edna Mahan violated the Eighth Amendment by “failing to protect prisoners from sexual abuse by staff.”
