"Zera Lola Zombie's lawyers filed the lawsuit in 2021, alleging sexual assault and discrimination due to her gender identity while she was housed at both the Oregon State Penitentiary and Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon."
"In September 2023, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken issued a temporary restraining order, requiring the Oregon Department of Corrections to designate Zombie as a vulnerable person, housing her in her own cell."
"Aiken wrote that it was 'more likely than not that plaintiff has been repeatedly subjected to abuse, including sexual assault, by male inmates with whom she is housed.'"
Oregon agreed to a $295,000 settlement in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Zera Lola Zombie, a transgender woman abused in a men's prison. Zombie's lawyers alleged sexual assault and discrimination during her incarceration at the Oregon State Penitentiary and Two Rivers Correctional Institution. After transitioning in 2020, she faced harassment and assault from cellmates. A federal judge mandated her designation as a vulnerable person, but she was later placed in a segregation cell, facing further mistreatment.
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