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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.
Transgender woman sues prison after allegedly being raped by cellmate in male prison
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
A sign at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility near Jackson on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. J. Scott Park | MLive.com
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JACKSON, MI – A transgender woman imprisoned at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson is suing the state prison system after allegedly being raped and sexually violated twice at the all-male facility in early 2020.
The lawsuit, filed March 2 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, alleges the Michigan Department of Corrections failed to abide by its own policies leading the plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, to be housed with a convicted murderer and sex offender who raped her within 24 hours of being bunked together.
Feb 9, 2021
In SUPPORT of SB368, A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana code regarding criminal law and procedure.
Chairman Young, Ranking Member Glick, Ranking Minority Member Tallian, and members of the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee:
My name is Alan Smith, and I am a senior fellow and Midwest Director at the R Street Institute, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. Our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government in many areas, specifically including prosecutorial reform, which is why SB 368 is of particular interest to us.