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Women s prison. | Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
California has paved the way for male prison inmates to be transferred to women s prisons, which has raised concerns about the safety and welfare of both the female inmate population and female corrections officers.
Over 255 men who identify as either female or nonbinary have in recent months requested to be transferred to women s prisons on the basis of self-declared “gender identity,” according to multiplereports.
The onslaught of such requests was precipitated by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which requires the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to inquire of every individual to indicate their preferred pronouns, gender identity, and whether they identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex. The new law also requires that the department house prisoners in a “correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference.”
Lawyers for a trans woman being held in men’s prisons in Georgia are pushing for an immediate transfer to a women’s facility. In a new court filing, 42-year-old Ashley Diamond says she’s assaulted constantly, denied necessary medical treatment and retaliated against for complaining.
Diamond’s first legal battle with the Georgia Department of Corrections garnered national attention, including from the U.S. Department of Justice. That previous lawsuit led to apparent policy changes for trans inmates in Georgia prisons.
“But in reality, GDC refuses to place transgender women in women’s facilities regardless of their meeting the criteria set out,” said Diamond in a court declaration.
Ashley Diamond – Photo: Robin Henson/Southern Poverty Law Center.
Lawyers for an incarcerated transgender woman in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections have filed for an emergency injunction to stop prison officials from retaliating against her due to two lawsuits she filed alleging the department had violated her constitutional rights.
Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman currently housed in Coastal State Prison in Garden City, Georgia, says that since being re-incarcerated in 2019, prison officials have refused to comply with their obligations to protect her from violence and sexual abuse, and provide her with gender-affirming medical care.
Diamond, who sued the department in 2015 for violating her Eighth Amendment right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment as it relates to her medical treatment, which has exacerbated her gender dysphoria and led her to attempt suicide and self-castration multiple times.
N.J. prison system introduces body cameras for officers at troubled women’s facility
Updated Apr 06, 2021;
The New Jersey Department of Corrections has received its first allotment of body cameras for officers to wear at the state’s only women’s prison, which has been under intense scrutiny in recent years after allegations of sexual abuse and most recently, an ongoing criminal investigation into a violent attack against a group of inmates.
The department announced Tuesday that the pilot program is being funded by a $250,000 grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and will initially launch at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.