Transgender Woman Awarded 125K From N.J. After Being Placed In Prison Housing With Men
The woman, identified in court papers as Sonia Doe, also received $45,000 for attorneys’ fees and would not face sanctions in connection with an assault from May 2019 that occurred in prison, the Associated Press reported. A new policy will be implemented on July 1 in New Jersey prisons that will house inmates based on their gender identity, rather than their sex assigned at birth. The policy aims to provide greater protections for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people in state prisons, and allows inmates to submit information about their gender identity at any point in their incarceration....