Two women incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility became pregnant after having sex with a transgender inmate.
It appears the two women prisoners became pregnant from “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person,” said Dan Sperrazza, the DOC’s external affairs executive director.
The majority of transgender inmates in the U.S. are housed in prisons according to their gender assigned at birth and are often subjected to violence and harassment,Jeanne LoCicero, legal director of the ACLU’s New Jersey chapter, said the current policy “reflects best practices to ensure the health, dignity, and safety of people in custody.”
“I believe it is highly inappropriate for the NJDOC to place pre-operative male-to-female allegedly transgender inmates in a women’s prison,” said the woman, who has been locked up for more than 20 years.
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