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Federal Investigation Launched into California Womens Prisons Over Transgender Inmate Policy

The Justice Department has initiated a federal civil rights probe into two California womens prisons, the California Institution for Women in Chino and the Central California Womens Facility in Chowchilla, due to allegations of biological male inmates who identify as transgender posing a risk to female prisoners. The investigation focuses on reports of sexual assaults, attempted rapes, voyeurism, and a general atmosphere of fear. This comes after Californias Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which allows men in state prisons to transfer to womens facilities by self-identifying as transgender, went into effect in January 2021. Federal officials have notified Governor Gavin Newsom about the review of these prisons run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Prosecutors argue the policy violates female inmates constitutional rights by prioritizing equity over safety. The investigation is separate from another Justice Department probe into staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at the same two facilities and includes the Maine Correctional Center in Windham. California corrections officials maintain their zero-tolerance policy on prison rape under federal law and insist on housing transgender women appropriately to comply with those rules.

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