The Hill brings this to light with a report on MCI-Framingham, an approximately 150-year old medium-security prison in Massachusetts.
It says that numerous female inmates reportedly face harassment, abuse, and retaliation if they report what happens to them behind bars, not only from the men they are incarcerated with, but also from their own legal system.
The report also mentions Amie Ichikawa. Ichikawa is calling for an overhaul of federal law now, following this Hill report.
Laura Hanford is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
Hanford said Ichikawa is a personal friend and references Ichikawa's work in explaining how the presence of a man in a women's prison shifts the power dynamic.
“And technically, if you think about it, there's no such thing as consent to sexual behavior in a prison."
Since men are housed in a women’s detention center, prison pregnancy has become a problem.
“They’re handing out condoms in female prisons. Those prisons are supposed to be all female. There's no reason to do that unless you have men in those prisons. And it's not just in Massachusetts. It's in California, it's in Colorado, it's in Minnesota, it's in Washington, it's in Oregon. All the blue states do this,” Hanford said.
But how does this happen? It’s not difficult, Hanford said.
“Anyone who identifies as a male can just go right over into the female prisons. There was a story that came out last year or the year before: a whistleblower prison guard who was talking about how he would see these men just start to do things like request lipstick or say that they were female, and he knew, it was very clear that there was …no particular desire that had already been manifested of these men to be women. It was purely because they knew that they would have it easy in women's prisons, and they would have full access to prey."
Hanford said the women may be assigned to share the same cell with genitalia-intact and functioning men. She added that the sad thing about this is that when some of these women have spoken out, they get punished.
“One woman was about to get parole in California, and spoke out about this violent man who was being housed with women, and the parole board yanked her parole and decided not to let her out and kept her in, ordered her in for more years, meaning that this woman never got to say goodbye to her mother who was terminally ill and died while she was still in prison. So, there's very, very real impact on these women in these situations."
Hanford said its "just remarkable" that anyone would go along with this.
"So, it's a really, truly horrifying human rights violation of the most vulnerable. I mean we're told in scripture to remember the prisoners. They don't just go away, they don't become less human just because they're incarcerated. And this is one of the most evil manifestations of transgender ideology that I can think of."
