A transgender woman who says she was abused while confined in 4 different men's prisons will be transferred to a New Jersey women's prison, the ACLU announced.
"It made me uncomfortable in my body and made me feel and look unlike myself," Sonia Doe wrote of being kept in a men's facility.Aug. 29, 2019, 10:06 PM UTCA transgender woman who claims she was abused while confined in four different men's prisons for more than 17 months will be transferred to a New Jersey women's prison, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey announced Thursday.
"Ms. Doe would be transferred to the women's prison no later than the week of September 15, 2019," the ACLU of N.J. said in a statement. In the suit, seen by NBC News, she alleged the NJDOC consistently misgendered her, denied her female commissary items and left her without adequate protection to deal with rampant sexual harassment from other inmates and officers.
Yet the 40-year-old said that, despite repeatedly telling NJDOC she is a woman, she was"treated" like a man and processed for intake at the Central Reception and Assignment Facility in Trenton along with men.
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