Inmates claim transgender triple murderer harassing women in CA prison.

Inmates at California’s Largest‌ Women’s Prison Speak Out Against Transgender​ Convict

Dana Rivers, a⁣ former transgender activist ⁤convicted ⁤of murdering a lesbian couple ⁣and their son, has been causing havoc since being ⁤transferred‍ to a housing unit at Central California Women’s Facility⁣ in Chowchilla. Female inmates in Rivers’s​ unit claim that ⁣he⁢ ogles them, speaks demeaningly ‌to them,​ and demands they ‌push him around in his wheelchair.

“Rivers has been a problem since he rolled in the‌ door,” ⁢one inmate said in a message reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. “He is trying to​ control the women saying he gets to​ bypass everything—special ‍treatment.”

California, along with ‍Connecticut, Maine, and⁤ Massachusetts, has⁤ enacted ⁣laws presumptively incarcerating criminals‌ based on their gender identity​ rather ‍than their sex. However, many ​female inmates have ⁢spoken out, expressing their concerns about feeling unsafe and being⁤ harassed or assaulted by male inmates who identify as transgender.

Last⁣ year, President Joe Biden ordered federal‌ prisons to prioritize the “health and safety” of transgender ‍inmates when making⁣ housing decisions.

“I ‍Felt​ Someone Watching Me”

In a phone interview, Tomiekia Johnson, ⁤an inmate at Central California ⁢Women’s Facility, shared an unsettling⁣ incident involving Rivers. One of ​her fellow inmates caught him leering⁢ at her.⁤ “She felt⁢ him looking ‍at‌ her, she ⁣said, ‘I ​felt someone watching⁣ me, and there he was, ‌staring at‌ my butt,’” Johnson said.

Johnson,‍ who lost ‍her job at the prison after filing a complaint against the ⁣California‍ law allowing men to​ be housed with women based on gender identity, expressed her frustration with Rivers being placed in ‌her housing unit. She ​feels betrayed by the prison for disregarding ‍her ​concerns.

Amie Ichikawa, founder​ of Women II Women, ‌has received messages from​ female inmates at Central ⁢California Women’s Facility, ⁤detailing ‍their experiences with Rivers’s behavior.⁢ Many of these women fear ‌retaliation and have asked to remain⁢ anonymous.

“Overall, the whole vibe is, ⁢how are we supposed ‍to rehabilitate and recover from these traumas when we’re housed with the same ‌kind of people ‍we were trying to get⁣ away ⁣from?” ⁤said Ichikawa, who was​ once ‌an inmate​ at the ‌prison.

A study‍ conducted in 2017 found that up ‌to 86 percent of incarcerated women enter prison as victims of sexual violence.

Rivers,⁤ formerly known as David Warfield, gained‍ attention as a transgender activist after‌ being fired from a teaching position in 1999. He‍ was later ⁣convicted of murdering Charlotte Reed, her wife, and their son. Rivers stabbed Reed​ multiple times.

According to⁤ an ‍inmate at Alameda County Santa Rita‍ Jail, where Rivers was held before being sentenced to state prison, he acted ⁤frail and pressured ‍female inmates to assist him. However, the inmate witnessed Rivers ⁤performing strenuous exercises, contradicting his ⁢frail appearance. She described ⁣him as “very chauvinistic,⁣ demeaning to women, and prideful about it.”

After being transferred to‍ Central ​California Women’s Facility, Rivers was initially housed with another transgender killer, ⁢Shiloh Quine. Quine ‍was the first male inmate to receive a state-funded sex ‍change. Other male inmates at the prison include ‌a convicted murderer​ of ⁣two babies, a rapist who tortured his victims, and a​ man who strangled his wife.

So​ far, 52 male inmates have been moved to women’s ⁤prisons in California.​ Many ‌of these men do not ⁢even attempt ​to present as women.

According to ‌documents from 2022 obtained by the Free Beacon, ⁢one-third⁣ of‍ the men who claimed transgender identity and ‍sought entry to California’s women’s prisons were registered sex offenders.