This 2018 photo provided by inmate Lindsay Saunders-Velez shows her, at left, with mentor Meghan Baker at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colo. Saunders-Velez is a transgender inmate who is suing Colorado’s corrections agency, saying she was raped at a men’s prison hours after a federal judge denied her request to block the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit.
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A transgender woman who is currently suing the Colorado Department of Corrections says she was raped in a men’s prison just hours after a federal judge denied her request to stop the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit.
In July, Lindsay Saunders-Velez, 20, filed a lawsuit calling Colorado’s prisons “discriminatory and dangerous” for transgender offenders, according to the Associated Press. She said that since entering the prison system last spring, she has been threatened, harassed and assaulted.
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