According to reports, two women have gotten pregnant after they both had consensual sex with a fellow inmate at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, New Jersey.
The women are part of 800 people which include 27 transwomen that are being held at the Correctional Facility.
An inmate claimed in a letter sent to US outlet NJ 105.5 that one of the pregnant women, who is not eligible for parole until 2104, was five months pregnant.
The letter revealed that the inmates had a history of having sex in public areas and had to be separated.
Demi Minor has claimed responsibility for impregnating the two prisoners through the website Justice 4 Demi, which she is understood to help run from prison.
According to claims, she was sentenced to 30 years inside when she was 16 years for manslaughter, and she has now gotten approval for correctional surgery.
A woman who claims to be the mother of one of the children has posted a blog post on the website, titled ‘Freedom, Love, Pregnancy and Trauma’.
She wrote: “Surprisingly I am three months pregnant and I conceived while incarcerated here at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.
“Although Edna Mahan breeds a ‘pervasive culture of rape’, I WAS NOT RAPED, nor was I forced to do anything that I did not want to do.
“Despite it not being permitted I fell in love and had consensual sex with a woman who is trans. Consensual sex is a prohibited act in Edna Mahan.”
The woman stressed further that she found “love in a hopeless place” – a quote from a Rhianna song – and that she is 31years old and she is serving a life sentence.
New Jersey prisons started housing transgender inmates who identify as women at women’s prisons in 2021 after a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.
The lawsuit followed a transgender woman’s claims that she was abused at a male prison.
Under New Jersey’s policy, trans women inmates are not required to undergo gender-reassignment surgery to be held in the facility.
It has got some pushback, with two Edna Mahan Correctional Facility prisoners filing a lawsuit to end New Jersey’s gender identity policy for prisons.
They claimed that they were abused by trans inmates and that transgender inmates were having sexual affairs with female prisoners.
Also, NJ PBA, a union for state correction officers, has criticised the policy.
While talking to NJ.com, President William Sullivan said: “We opposed this policy change believing it would be detrimental to the general population of female inmates being housed at Edna Mahan and also bring added stress to our correctional police officers assigned to this institution.”
