Increment the "BuT tHaT nEvEr HaPpEnS!" counter: 4 Male Inmates Secretly Moved to a Women’s Prison; One in Isolation After Raping Women

Violent men were secreted into a women’s prison in Illinois over recent months without public notice while and after a District Court decided state prisons should not automatically house inmates on the basis of sex indicators, such as genitalia and physical stature. One of the men had to be placed into isolation after an investigation determined he raped several of the women after stopping his hormone use.

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The male inmates were “not well received” at the women’s prison: “Many women in IDOC’s care have been exposed to domestic, physical, or emotional violence,” court papers show Dr William Puga, the IDOC Chief of Psychiatry, as having reported, and are therefore “scared” of the male transferees. Of the two men who had already been transferred into the women’s prison at the time of Dr Puga’s report, one was found to have raped several incarcerated women.

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Court documents referenced in Monroe v Baldwin show Dr Puga “received information that Monroe threatened staff and other inmates” at the women’s prison. Monroe, who had intact male genitalia, “stopped taking her hormones and was sexually active.” In addition, “women at the facility filed complaints against Monroe under the Prison Rape Elimination Act [PREA]; some were false but many were legitimate.” One of the women said Monroe subdued and raped her the day they became cellmates. According to her lawsuit against the prison, staff forced her to recant the rape allegation and punished for filing a false complaint under the PREA.

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Sora Kuykendall, a registered sex offender who legally retains his birth name of Jordan Kuykendall, fatally stabbed his 17-year-old girlfriend in the neck and torso. Erin Michelle Schneider, the high schooler, had ended her relationship with 20-year-old Kuykendall and filed an emergency order of protection following years of physical abuse. Kuykendall was captured after crashing head-on with another vehicle while fleeing the scene.

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Lydia Helena Vision, a registered sex offender named Eric Padilla at birth and under the law, approached three black men in 2003 as they walked by a housing project. In an incident presumed to be racially motivated, the Mexican-born man deliberately bumped into Frenaz D. Lyles, age 18, and demanded an apology before stabbing him.