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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women's prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot, or stabbed to death.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Wednesday to transfer two transgender inmates—biological men who identify as women—back to federal women’s prisons. This move comes after they were originally relocated to men’s facilities following President Donald Trump’s executive order that limited transgender protections in federal custody. The decision, which conservatives are blasting as a blatant reversal of common-sense protections for female inmates, grants a preliminary injunction for the two individuals—identified as “Rachel” and “Ellen Doe,” ABC News reported. Lamberth’s ruling mandates not only the immediate transfer of the two individuals...

A male murderer who identifies as “transgender” and was sent to a women’s prison has been accused of “preying” on inmates and bragging about receiving “special treatment,” according to a report from Washington Free Beacon. Reportedly, Dana Rivers, 68, who was previously known as David Chester Warfield, shot and stabbed a lesbian couple and shot their son to death in November 2016. This month, Rivers was sentenced to life in prison, which Townhall covered.I mean, did they expect anything different?"I'm a woman" is essentially a get out of jail free card to males convicted of heinous crimes like murder, kidnapping,...

There are 27 trans inmates currently housed at the facility.. Two inmates at New Jersey’s only women’s prison are pregnant after reportedly having sex with a transgender inmate. .... The prison houses more than 800 inmates, and began housing transgender women last year following a lawsuit brought forth by a trans inmate who lived in men’s prisons for 18 months and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. There are 27 inmates who identify as transgender currently housed at the facility, according to NJ.com. New Jersey's policy does not require trans women inmates to undergo gender-reassignment surgery to be...

Two incarcerated women at New Jersey’s only all-female prison are now pregnant after engaging in consensual sexual intercourse with transgender inmates.The unidentified expectant mothers are housed at the Edna Mahan Correction Facility in Clinton, NJ — a facility so riddled with violence and scandal that New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced last June that he would be closing it.While an investigation has been launched in the prison — which currently houses more than 800 women, including 27 transgender inmates men — it is unclear at this time whether the women both slept with the same transgender inmate. It is also...

In this episode of “As the Gender Identity Insanity Continues”…A purported draft executive order by Joe Biden directs the attorney general to identify “necessary changes” to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Transgender Offender Manual so that the agency can “designate individuals to [federal] facilities in accordance with their gender identity,” as reported by Just the News.Translation: Housing anatomically male prisoners in women’s prisons.What could possibly go wrong?A recent Scottish study found “trans” prisoners casually “switch genders again” after release from women’s units back into society. But that would never happen in America, right? Nah, no way. Way.According to Just the...

This month marks ten years since the death of Pauline Campbell. Pauline became a formidable campaigner exposing the harm inflicted on women within the prison system. This followed the death of her 18-year-old daughter in Styal prison in 2003. It was campaigning by Pauline Campbell, bereaved families and Inquest around the sharp rise in deaths across the women’s estate, and in particular deaths at Styal in the early 2000s, that persuaded the then Labour government to commission Baroness Jean Corston to conduct an independent review of women in the criminal justice system. Corston’s ground-breaking report, published in March 2007, offered...

A Russian prison official has been jailed for at least two months after footage of him punching, kicking and pulling the hair of female inmates was leaked online, sparking outrage and calling the country’s penal system into question. The videos, which were filmed in 2008 at a prison in Russia’s eastern Amur region, shows a prison official, identified as deputy warden Sergei Zychkov, viciously beating his female detainees in a cell. Posted on October 24 2011, the graphic footage quickly caused a scandal in the blogosphere, prompting Russian authorities to open an official investigation into the case. Three days later,...

VALPARAISO, Ind. -- A disagreement over potato chips led a female jail inmate to attack another inmate, Porter County officials said. Police said Mary Louise Ochoa, 29, of Gary, attacked Kelly Katona in Katona's cell Monday afternoon. Ochoa faces a possible charge of aggravated battery, police said. Katona, 38, of South Haven, cut her head when it hit a bunk bed during the struggle, police said. The injury required stitches, police said. Investigators said the fight started after Katona agreed to trade her bag of popcorn for Ochoa's hot dog and chips. However, Ochoa only gave Katona the hot dog,...