Man who claims he’s female accused of raping inmates at women’s prison

Yet another scandal has erupted over the placement of “transgender female” inmates being incarcerated alongside women, this time involving multiple rape allegations after a judge forced the male inmate to be placed with women.

WTTW reports that a Jane Doe inmate at Illinois’ Logan Correctional Center filed a federal lawsuit last week against officials with the state Department of Corrections (IDOC) for allegedly allowing her to be sexually assaulted by Andre Patterson, a male inmate who identifies as a woman under the name Janiah Monroe, last year.

The suit claims that following the attack, which the state allegedly covered up with a “sham investigation,” she was coerced into recanting, then punished for filing a “false” report. They did this, the suit contends, to “justify the transfers” of “transgender inmates from male to female prisons,” which “has been a contentious policy within IDOC.”