Trans Female Prisoner Who Impregnated Two Inmates Moved To Youth Correctional Facility
Trans female prisoner Demi Minor—who, as previously reported in April, impregnated two fellow inmates in a New Jersey prison—has been removed from the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women and placed in the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for offenders aged 18-30. A spokesman has stated that Minor is the only woman inmate at the prison, but because she’s trans, she’s been placed in the facility’s “vulnerable unit.” I hope she’s safe and being properly protected, but at least she’s not able to impregnate any more inmates since she’s in a men’s prison (unless there are trans male inmates at the prison?). Via NJ.com:
A transgender inmate who impregnated two women while incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to a new facility, according to the Department of Corrections.
Demi Minor, 27, was transferred to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adult offenders in Burlington County, last month, Dan Sperrazza, a Department of Corrections spokesman, said.
He said the DOC moved Minor to the vulnerable unit at the facility and that she is currently the only woman prisoner on the site.
[NJ.com]
Minor has alleged multiple instances of abuse at the first prison (before she was moved), and the allegations are currently under investigation by the DOC. She has an active Twitter account where she posts images and videos from prison, which caught me by surprise at first. But, I guess if you can have sex and get pregnant in prison, it’s not a surprise that you can tweet from prison. A video posted today of Minor, presumably from the new prison:
Thanks to all those who support https://t.co/9EvREi1J4d and have sent their love, I hate it here and above all I have been so heart broken over the abuse that DOC is carrying out. I found courage to post this video… pic.twitter.com/WrceD2UAUT
— Ms. Demi Minor (@freeMsDemi) July 17, 2022
These videos below, posted back in April, would’ve been recorded in the previous prison, before she was moved:
— Ms. Demi Minor (@freeMsDemi) April 28, 2022
Minor was convicted of manslaughter and is eligible for parole in 2037. The tragic circumstances surrounding the crime, according to Minor, are on her website:
Only 16 years old and succumbing to the social pressure to be a boy, Demi’s actual charges for manslaughter stemmed from an act of misdirected hostility in which she killed her former foster father whom she wrongly blamed at the time for the sexual abuse she suffered while under his care.
Demi was thrown into the foster system at the age of 8 after being removed from her household because the beatings her father gave her made her unable to sit down at school. After bouncing around the foster system, she ended up being placed in a foster home where she faced sexual abuse from another foster child. When she reported the abuse, she was told that there was no place in the foster system for a black boy.
After leaving that abusive situation, she kept bouncing around the foster system, until she eventually ended up homeless. While on the streets, she returned to the foster home where she faced sexual abuse, got in an altercation with her foster father, and stabbed him to death.
With an overworked public defender managing her case, Demi was pressured into taking a plea that waived her rights as a juvenile and sentenced her to 30 years with a 25 year minimum in an adult prison as a child. Since then, she has devoted her life to making amends for her actions and fixing the institutions that failed her.
