...An inmate at Illinois' largest women's prison says she was raped by a transgender inmate who was transferred into her housing unit last year, and claims Illinois Department of Corrections officials conducted a "Sham investigation" to help cover up the incident.
...In a federal lawsuit filed last week, a Jane Doe inmate at the Logan Correctional Center in central Illinois said that after being sexually assaulted in June 2019, she was coerced by a supervisory officer into denying the attack took place and then punished for filing a "False" complaint under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
..."The transfer of transgender inmates from male to female prisons has been a contentious policy within IDOC," the plaintiff's Peoria-based attorneys wrote in a five-page complaint.
...According to the new lawsuit, Monroe, who is identified as a transgender inmate who "Identifies as female, but still has male genitalia" was moved into the plaintiff's housing unit on June 18, 2019, and immediately began "Express(ing) an interest" in the plaintiff.
..."Plaintiff was terrified of this inmate as the inmate was much bigger and stronger than Plaintiff," the lawsuit states.
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