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A transgender female prisoner has sued the Michigan Department of Corrections in federal court for its failure to protect her at the all-male G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson County, where she had been housed.
The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, filed suit on March 2, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
The complaint alleges that she was raped and sexually assaulted in two separate incidents about four days apart in January 2020 after prison officials forced her to share a cell, in each case with a different known rapist, despite her repeated objections and her pleas that she was being threatened by the cell mate.
Michigan trans inmate sues state after being raped by cellmates in male prison
The woman was moved to a different cell, where she was also sexually assaulted
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A transgender inmate in Michigan has sued the state prison system after allegedly being raped and sexually assaulted by two separate cellmates at an all-men’s prison.
The woman, who goes by “Jane Doe,” a pseudonym meant to protect her privacy, was issued a medical order in December 2019 that was supposed to prohibit her from being housed with a cellmate who did not have gender dysphoria.
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Marquette
Some jobs are easier than others. One job that’s definitely in the “others” category is a prison corrections officer.
Consider that a CO has to deal with a population that’s probably not the easiest and most cooperative, and is one that requires a constant amount of diligence and oversight.
Case in point: the incidence that took place Feb. 27 when a maximum security prisoner assaulted a Michigan Department of Corrections officer at Marquette Branch Prison.
The MDOC said the officer was releasing prisoners from their cells into the prison yard when the attack took place. The prisoner stabbed and punched the officer in the face and head as she defended herself, but fortunately, fellow officers responded and swiftly got the prisoner away from the officer who was knocked to the ground.