
Trans women are still incarcerated with men and it's putting their lives at risk
CNN
Jasmine Rose Jones is a woman. But for much of the last 23 years, she was incarcerated in a men's facility, and she says she was subjected to rape, sexual assault and abuse, just because she is transgender.
Jones, who was released from prison in May 2020 and is now a legal assistant at the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project in San Francisco, says she was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by male prisoners and abused by male correctional officers across multiple facilities throughout her multiple stints in custody. At the time, Jones did not feel like she could report the assaults to corrections officers, for fear of retribution, including being thrown into solitary confinement. But she says she had told officers that she was transgender and feared for her safety.More Related News