Transgender inmate says she was raped despite raising fears
DENVER (AP) — A transgender inmate who is suing Colorado's corrections agency says 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, according to court records and the woman's attorney.
Lindsay Saunders-Velez filed a lawsuit in July saying she has been threatened, harassed and assaulted since entering Colorado's prison system last spring for violating her plea deal in a menacing case. She called the state's prisons "discriminatory and dangerous" for transgender offenders.